- From: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap-carbon@rambler.ru>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:09:13 +0400
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: <public-webapi@w3.org>
* Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> [Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:35:50 +0200]: > > On Wed, 30 May 2007 10:40:14 +0200, Alexey Proskuryakov > <ap-carbon@rambler.ru> wrote: > > On 5/30/07 12:04 PM, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > > > >>> It turned out that there is already some code (Dashboard widgets) > that > >>> relies on Http-Equiv METAs being honored by XMLHttpRequest. This > worked > >>> in shipping Safari/WebKit by accident: all XHR content was passed > >>> through an > >>> XML/HTML decoder. > >> > >> So you're saying that for responseText you do indeed adhere to the > >> text/html rules? > > > > Yes, shipping Safari/WebKit does basically that. > > Does responseText stay null until you know the encoding? Yes, response data is not appended to it until the encoding is determined (this is true for both shipping Safari/WebKit and nightly builds). Looking at the code, I think that it stays null, although there is a slight chance that it changes to an empty string in some circumstances. - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov.
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