Re: [XHR2] responseText for text/html before the encoding has stabilized

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:40:09 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> responseType is a newish feature. If it's OK for responseType ==
>> "chunked-text" to use encoding determination rules that differ from
>> responseType == "" or responseType == "document", why should
>> responseType == "text" have to be consistent with responseType == ""
>> instead of being consistent with responseType == "chunked-text"?
>
> Well it does not have to be, but that is what we decided when we worked this
> out. If implementations are willing to change and agree this makes sense, I
> am happy to make the change to the specification.

Hmm.. I looked through archives but can't find any such decision.

It's not how Gecko works, but I haven't tried webkit.

/ Jonas

Received on Friday, 30 September 2011 17:27:47 UTC