- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:50:10 +0900
- To: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Sep 17, 2007, at 17:30 , Frank Ellermann wrote: > Eventually I used that. But I first tried what you have as "fbc" > in the user manual, and for that option text/xml without charset > is a special case (i.e. it doesn't trigger "fbc"). Maybe mention > this special case on the user.html page in the "fbc" paragraph. I guess that the implementation considers that, when using text/xml without charset, the us-ascii charset is set and therefore the fbc option (which triggers fallback only if there is no charset given at all) does not apply. I think this should be relaxed. > But what I'd really prefer would be a mode to validate documents > "as is" independent of any transport oddities. Ideally this mode > would be the new default, and enabling to check a document in the > context of its transport to the validator could be an option. I don't think I can agree with you here. MIME and HTTP may be causing issues for a few ill-configured or ill-coded servers and browsers, but making it a default to ignore the very important encoding and media type info they convey, and using sniffing instead, sounds like a bad idea to me. Regards, -- olivier
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