[Bug 9628] "willful violation" for detecting the charset

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9628


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |NEEDSINFO




--- Comment #4 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2010-08-16 21:45:19 ---
(1) It's used in several places, click the name of the algorithm for a list.

(2) Isn't the violation pretty obvious? I don't really know how to begin
describing it, I mean, the whole algorithm is in its entirety one big
violation, no?

(3) It is my understanding that, notwithstanding your experience with IE, there
are pages depending on this. However, I may be mistaken. If you have detailed
research on this topic, that would be most welcome. I'm happy to change this
algorithm in response to such data.

(4, 5, etc) The algorithm violates HTTP in a huge bunch of ways, backslashes
aren't the half of it.

If I recall correctly, this algorithm was based directly on one of the
prominent implementations. I do not recall which. I'm happy to update it if
there is clear evidence that the current algorithm is not compatible with
legacy content.

As a general note, please file just one bug per issue. Thanks.

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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Insufficient data.

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Received on Monday, 16 August 2010 21:45:21 UTC