On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Aryeh Gregor <a...@aryeh.name> wrote: > In particular, you need to decide on the encoding before you start > running any user script, because you don't want document.characterSet > etc. to change once it might have already been accessed. For > performance reasons, we want to be able to run scripts immediately > after receiving the initial TCP response, if there are any to run yet. > This implies we need to decide on character set after reading the > first segment, which typically will not contain the actual content of > the page that we would want to sniff on pages like > http://www.eyrie-productions.com/. Right?
Right. > (I say this only because my initial reaction was that we could hold > off on deciding what encoding to use until we find the first non-ASCII > byte without any ill effects, if we really wanted to. That would > probably make the site in question work. But then I realized it would > break document.characterSet, so it's not an option even if we wanted > more sniffing.) Right. The idea occurred to me, too, and then I thought of scripts and styles. -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@hsivonen.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
