Re: flakey charset detection

Nick Kew wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, David Brownell wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>More have found that using anything _except_ text/html is completely
>>>>unworkable.
>>>
> 
> Would that be due to sparse support amongst web browsers?

Sparse might be overstating the level of support!


>>>There is another option, one which seems to be often overlooked.
>>>Use HTML 4.01.
>>
>>Not an option when the goal is to use XML-only toolsets to
>>read and write the content.  That's why it can be overlooked.
> 
> 
> Evidently not.  What XML-only toolsets "work" only with text/html?

Eh?  I didn't say that _only_ those toolsets would be used with it.
Remember that standard browsers need to do read the web pages.

- Dave