Re: [XHR] responseType "json"

On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:00:26 +0100, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>  
wrote:
> I tied it to UTF-8 to further the fight on encoding proliferation and  
> encourage developers to always use that encoding.

FYI, I also tied it to ECMAScript's definition of JSON, which has some  
restrictions in place that the JSON RFC does not have. Given that  
ECMAScript thus far had the only platform-based implementation of JSON it  
made sense for XMLHttpRequest to follow that.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Monday, 5 December 2011 10:57:26 UTC