- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:28:48 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > > Various document formats either provide or propose means to specify the > character encoding of external scripts if there is no reliable way to > determine the character encoding e.g. when loading the scripts from the > local disk if the file system does not support such meta data. Among > these formats are HTML 4.01 (<link rel=script charset=...>), VoiceXML > 2.0 (<script charset=...>), XHTML 2.0 (<script charset=...>) and various > derived formats. Please change SVG 1.2 to provide similar means to > ensure interoperable encoding detection for external scripts. Personally I consider those attributes to be a huge pain in the neck. They have caused any number of problems on the Web (e.g. the same resource being treated in two totally different ways purely due to the linking mechanism). Please rely only on the resource's own metadata to make this kind of determination. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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