- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:03:22 +0100
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:53:12 +0100, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> > wrote: >> If we can make it a deterministic, unchanging, and defined algorithm, I >> think that would actually be acceptable. And ideally we do define that >> algorithm at some point so new browsers can enter the existing market >> more easily and existing browsers interpret existing content in the >> same way. > > We don't have any untagged content to support yet, so let's not create an > API that guarantees it'll come into existence. The heuristics you need > depend heavily on the content, anyway (for example, heuristics that work > for HTML probably won't for ID3 tags, which are generally very short). What I replied to suggested reusing an existing undocumented code path which is definitely used to support existing content. From what I remember reading about the detector in Gecko it can be quite useful regardless of context. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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