Re: [CSS21] Please make the BOM take highest precedence for character encoding information for text/css (higher than HTTP)

On the face of it, it sounds like a good idea.

Given that some browsers, as you said, already behave that way, I would like to encourage the vendors of these browsers to check their bug database to verify that this behavior isn't a source of problems.

Florian

Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:

>Regarding: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#charset
>
>Letting HTTP-level character encoding information take precedence over
>a BOM never leads to sensible results, because the bytes that a BOM
>consists of never occurred for non-BOM purposes at the start of a
>file. So far, it seems that making the BOM override HTTP for HTML and
>JavaScript makes a Web engine more Web-compatible. The BOM overrides
>HTTP for HTML in IE up to and including 9 (but not 10), in Chrome and
>in Opera. The BOM overrides HTTP for JS in IE7 (but not in 8, 9 or
>10), in Chrome and in Opera.
>
>While I am unaware of Web compat evidence for CSS, it would make CSS
>more consistent with the rest of the platform to make the BOM take the
>highest precedence for CSS as well. Opera and Chrome already give the
>BOM the highest precedence for CSS.
>
>I did not test Safari.
>
>Please change CSS to give the highest precedence to the BOM (UTF-8,
>UTF-16 little endian or UTF-16 big endian).
>
>Gecko bug for the CSS case:
>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796882
>
>Gecko bug for the JavaScript case:
>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687859
>
>Gecko bug for the HTML and XML case:
>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716579
>
>Spec bug for the JavaScript case:
>https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19623
>
>Spec bug for the HTML case:
>https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17810
>
>Test case for HTML:
>http://hsivonen.iki.fi/test/moz/bom/html.html1251
>
>Test case for CSS and JS:
>http://hsivonen.iki.fi/test/moz/bom/no-charset-attribute.html1251
>(Check baseline for :after support:
>http://hsivonen.iki.fi/test/moz/bom/baseline.html )

Received on Sunday, 21 October 2012 08:40:27 UTC