- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:23:13 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Jarred Nicholls <jarred@webkit.org>, Ms2ger <ms2ger@gmail.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
On 2012-01-06 22:58, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > ... > RFC4627, for example, is six years old. This was right about the > beginning of the time when "UTF-8 everywhere, dammit" was really > starting to gain hold as a reasonable solution to encoding hell. > Crockford, as well, is not a browser dev, nor is he closely connected > to browser devs in a capacity that would really inform him of why > supporting multiple encodings on the web is so painful. So, looking > to that RFC for guidance on current best-practice is not a good idea. > ... This is misleading. RFC 4627 is *written* by Douglas, but not owned by him. There is a change procedure in place. If you really really believe something needs to change, use it. (First step would be to subsribe to IETF apps-discuss and explain the problem) Best regards, Julian
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