Re: Encoding Standard (mostly complete)

[Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:06:12 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  
wrote:
> On 2012-04-23 09:10, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> In brief, the goal is to document the "web platform". So that existing
>> implementations and new implementations have no trouble figuring out
>> what to implement. In part that requires figuring out what existing
>> content relies upon, which can determined to some extent by figuring out
>> what the market leader is doing.
>
> But then, Microsoft isn't the market leader anymore, right?

That depends on the market. E.g. in Taiwan they still seem to be.


> Given the combined market share of Chrome and Firefox, maybe it's not  
> needed anymore to do exactly the same?

The Encoding Standard is not codifying Internet Explorer at the moment.  
It's a balance between compatibility with deployed content, existing  
browsers, avoiding PUA, and XSS concerns. (We might have to cave on  
avoiding PUA, we'll see.)


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