- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:09:27 -0500
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> wrote: > 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. It's used to support text/html content. There's no content using *this API* that exists yet, because this API doesn't exist yet. If we really wanted to expose heuristics, it should be a separate method, eg. guessEncoding(view) == "Shift-JIS". -- Glenn Maynard
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