Latest news in the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430740#c42
Igor wrote: "So MSIE simply treats BOM as a whitespace for the purpose of parsing. Which suggests to do this in SM to fix the bug: treat BOM as one of Unicode whitespace characters in the scanner avoiding any character skipping or patching." So no security issues with stripping. Another triumph of de-facto standard over de-jure. Pratap got this into ES3.1 drafts already. /be _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss