- From: Ian Graham <igraham@smaug.java.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:22:48 -0400
- To: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Dave J Woolley wrote: > > From: Ian Graham [SMTP:igraham@smaug.java.utoronto.ca] > > > > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=...." > > > > [DJW:] That's a hack that was legitimised by the > standards after the fact; one should actually specify it > in the real HTTP header, which always takes precedence. > Well, yes -- that was the point Chris made at the start of this thread of [1]. Of course, not all content is delivered by HTTP. File system access or FTP do not provide content type data, in which case these mechanisms (encoding values in XML declarations or the meta 'hack' in HTML) are required functionality. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2000Jun/0079.html -- Ian
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