Re: [CSS21] BOM vs HTTP charset

Fwiw, I just updated those test results while porting the tests to the 
W3C test framework.

There were some changes to the results. See 
http://www.w3.org/International/tests/html-css/css-encoding/results-css-encoding

RI

On 07/02/2012 05:50, Richard Ishida wrote:
> See
> http://www.w3.org/International/tests/html-css/css-encoding/results-css-encoding#precedence
>
>
> RI
>
> On 06/02/2012 17:15, Øyvind Stenhaug wrote:
>> On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:02:42 +0100, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/6/12 8:43 AM, Øyvind Stenhaug wrote:
>>>> According to a bug on the HTML5 spec, there are Web compatibility
>>>> issues
>>>> with the current encoding sniffing algorithm (where the HTTP charset
>>>> parameter overrides a BOM).
>>>>
>>>> To maintain consistency, the CSS spec would need to change too.
>>>
>>> What do current CSS implementations do? It may well be that there are
>>> web compat issues with having the same behavior in HTML and CSS here...
>>
>> As far as I can tell, WebKit ignores charset in the presence of a BOM,
>> both for HTML and for CSS. IE9 treats them differently (seems to honor
>> the charset for CSS).
>>
>

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Received on Tuesday, 7 February 2012 12:07:29 UTC