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Re: XHR: responseText encoding detection

From: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap-carbon@rambler.ru>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 12:40:14 +0400
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, <public-webapi@w3.org>
Message-ID: <C283212E.387F0%ap-carbon@rambler.ru> 

On 5/30/07 12:04 PM, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> wrote:

>> It turned out that there is already some code (Dashboard widgets) that
>> relies on Http-Equiv METAs being honored by XMLHttpRequest. This worked
>> in shipping Safari/WebKit by accident: all XHR content was passed
>> through an
>> XML/HTML decoder.
> 
> So you're saying that for responseText you do indeed adhere to the
> text/html rules?

  Yes, shipping Safari/WebKit does basically that.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
Received on Wednesday, 30 May 2007 08:40:30 GMT

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