- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:04:53 +0200
- To: "Alexey Proskuryakov" <ap-carbon@rambler.ru>, public-webapi@w3.org
On Wed, 30 May 2007 09:44:41 +0200, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap-carbon@rambler.ru> 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? > So, it seems that we need to decode text/html according to its normal > rules. This can be made a quirk for Dashboard, but since it makes > long-term sense for HTML5, maybe it is a good behavior to specify. > > For most browsers, it would be a change in behavior, so I guess the > biggest question is what other browser makers think about it. Yeah. Opera does this for text/css as well, for what it's worth. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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