- From: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap-carbon@rambler.ru>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:04:09 +0300
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, <public-webapi@w3.org>
On 2/26/07 3:21 PM, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> wrote: >> In my testing, I have found that existing implementations already deduce >> the charset for XHR response in a way that's drastically different from >> normal page loading. > > But should we really make it be like that? Once HTML5 is there we probably > want .responseXML to work for text/html documents as well and we probably > want the encoding to be derived the same way HTML5 specifies it should be > derived. It is not really obvious to me why this is even desirable - isn't it easier to serve as XHTML in cases when responseXML is needed? After all, XMLHttpRequest is not a general purpose HTTP library, so we don't need to worry about arbitrary content. - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
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