- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:05:31 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Keryx Web wrote: > > Reading MS proposal (=decision!) about their new rendering mode switch, > I have been very bugged that almost no one has picked up this flaw to be > discussed: > > If a charset is set with a meta-element, it does *not* override the > http-header. > > But > > If a rendering mode is set with a meta-element, it *does* override the > http-header. > > Is there any precedence for this? If not, I'd suggest that the spec > stipulates uniform behaviour. HTML5 defines http-equiv in a way that divorces it from HTTP headers altogether, so actually this is a non-issue in HTML5. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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