- From: Kornel <kornel@geekhood.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:33:27 +0000
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On 26 Jan 2010, at 17:19, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> Why do yo need the charset param, why do you need the DOCTYPE? > > If you omit the charset, I think it will attempt to default to > windows-1252. At least, it apparently will with text/html. Not sure > what happens with text/html-sandboxed. > > The DOCTYPE is required or else the page will be in quirks mode. I think it would make sense to define that text/html-sandboxed defaults to UTF-8 and standards mode. Windows charset and quirks are needed only for backwards compatibility, and there is no such need in case of sandbox. -- regards, Kornel
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