[Bug 10803] New: Ignore document.written charset metas

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10803

           Summary: Ignore document.written charset metas
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: hsivonen@iki.fi
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


Gecko doesn't reload the page with a different charset if a charset meta has
been document.written. This is done to comply with compatibility lore. A
charset meta is considered to have been document.written if the character that
caused the token to be emitted (i.e. the '>' character that ends the tag) came
from a document.write argument.

I'm filing this without testing what happens in other browsers and without
providing bugzilla/cvs archeology information about the rationale of the lore,
because I want to get this on file before the deadline.

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Received on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:12:53 UTC