Re: XHR and document.xmlEncoding

On 11/19/06 5:25 PM, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> wrote:

>> However, I'm not seeing this behavior in Firefox 2 - it seems to always
>> encode sent documents as UTF-8. Is this something that has been already
>> discussed, and decided in favor of the new behavior? I'm feeling
>> somewhat reluctant to break Firefox compatibility (WebKit didn't support
>> xmlEncoding before, and thus also encoded documents as UTF-8).
> 
> I'm fine with always serializing to UTF-8 if that's what browsers do. One
> less character encoding issue for authors to deal with. :-)

  There's one difference between WebKit and Firefox in this regard, however.
WebKit serializes the document without any XML declaration, so encoding as
UTF-8 is only natural. However, Firefox includes a declaration, with an
encoding that doesn't match the actual one - which looks like a bug to me.

  Perhaps, the requrement could be that the document should be encoded to be
valid - i.e. if an XML declaration is present, it should match the actual
encoding?

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov