Re: [XHR2] overrideMimeType

Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>>
>> I've been looking at overrideMimeType implementations in Gecko and 
>> WebKit and it seems like they differ a bit. In Gecko it has to be 
>> invoked before send(), but in WebKit it would work if you invoke it 
>> just before getting responseXML or responseText. Neither 
>> implementation seems to do any input checks.
>>
>> If you have any opinion on how it should be specified I suppose now 
>> would be the time to air your thoughts.
> 
> Of course I prefer the mozilla way :)
> 
> It does seem fairly complicated to allow it to be set after the download 
> is finished though. You do have the stream stored in .reponseBody, but 
> at that point all encoding information has been lost. For HTML parsing 
> (which I hope the spec will support in the future) there are a pile of 
> rules used to guess the encoding, all of which would be useful to use, 
> but can't be used if all you have access to is the unencoded responseBody.

Sorry, I meant responseText in the above.

/ Jonas