RE: Encoding Standard (mostly complete)

[Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>]

> > 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.)

As noted, FYI, IE is likely not to change, particularly if that'd require supporting code pages or variations that windows doesn't know about.

-Shawn