[XHTML 2] 17.1 Encoding attribute from Jim Ley on 2005-05-28 (www-html-editor@w3.org from April to June 2005)

From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 21:24:36 +0100
To: <www-html-editor@w3.org>
Cc: <xhtml2-issues@hades.mn.aptest.com>
Message-ID: <008c01c563c3$446269c0$0a00000a@Snufkin>

Dear HTML Working Group,

17.1 Requires that a user agent sends an accept-charset request header 
defined by the author, rather than actually the charset it accepts.

"The user agent must use this list as the field value of the accept-charset 
request header when requesting the resource using HTTP"

This has no merit whatsoever, there is no point a user agent saying it 
accepts charsets it doesn't actually understand, and actively interferes 
with content negotiation as defined in RFC 2616.

Please remove this constraint.

Regards,

Jim Ley.

Received on Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:24:53 UTC