Re: Encoding Standard (mostly complete)

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>]

On 2012-04-23 12:07, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 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.)

Ack.

PUA?