[whatwg] Section 5.7.3.3 Parsing cache manifests

Dec 30, 2008, ? 7:09 PM, timeless ???????(?):

>> I suggest changing the signature to "^<BOM>?CACHE MANIFEST" - then  
>> it will
>> be easier to verify, and it will be possible to add comments at the  
>> end.
>> This is how we have it in WebKit now, and changing the check to the  
>> more
>> strict HTML5 one may affect existing clients.
>
> this means we could never do:
> "^<BOM>?CACHE MANIFEST2"


If incompatible changes to the format are ever needed, we can change  
Content-Type.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov

Received on Tuesday, 30 December 2008 08:17:07 UTC