Re: [XHR2] Avoiding charset dependencies on user settings from Boris Zbarsky on 2011-09-23 (public-webapps@w3.org from July to September 2011)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:24:07 -0400
To: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <4E7CDCD7.70507@mit.edu>

On 9/23/11 4:26 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> Applying all the legacy text/html craziness to XHR could break current
> use of XHR to retrieve responseText of text/html resources (assuming
> that we want responseText for text/html work like responseText for XML
> in the sense that the same character encoding is used for responseText
> and responseXML).

I think this is a pretty strong argument in favor of not doing the 
text/html craziness.

-Boris

Received on Friday, 23 September 2011 19:24:48 UTC