- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:17:52 +0000
- To: public-evangelist@w3.org
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:11:18PM -0500, Mike Schinkel wrote: > This http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-http-equiv says > (emphasis mine): "HTTP servers *MAY* use the property name specified by the > http-equiv attribute to create an [RFC822]-style header in the HTTP > response." That would imply they might not, and if so the browser would > have to handle, no? No, just that the server should use some other means to determine the character encoding of the document (generally "use the configured value"). > Anyway, just wanted to point this out (it is a shame the recommendation > didn't say "MUST" instead of "MAY") Ouch, every HTTPD an HTML parser? Ouch! -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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