- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:57:00 -0700
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, =?utf-8?Q? "Martin_J._D=C3=BCrst" ?= <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, "Phillips, Addison" <addison@amazon.com>, Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
On 11 Oct 2009, at 18:39, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote: > Can someone please explain, again, why the discussion of default > configurations of a particular category of user agent in various > regions belongs in the definition of the HyperText Markup Language? > > What benefit can any author of a web page derive, please, from > knowing what the default settings of various browsers in products > sold into various language environments? Authors aren't the only target audience of this specification. Implementors benefit from advice suggesting default encodings. Users benefit from consistency in implementations. -- Ian Hickson
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