Re: Intent to prototype: Character encoding detector

2019-12-16 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 2:42 PM Henri Sivonen wrote: > 1. On _unlabeled_ text/html and text/plain pages, autodetect _legacy_ > encoding, excluding UTF-8, for non-file: URLs and autodetect the > encoding, including UTF-8, for file: URLs. > > Elevator pitch: Chrome already did this unilaterally. The

Re: Intent to prototype: Character encoding detector

2019-12-12 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 12/9/19 6:24 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: Good point. I'll use tentative WPTs for end-to-end automated tests. Thank you! -Boris ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Intent to prototype: Character encoding detector

2019-12-09 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 8:08 PM Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > On 12/2/19 7:42 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > Since there isn't a spec and Safari doesn't implement the feature, > > there are no cross-vendor tests. > > Could .tentative tests be created here, on the off chance that we do > create a spec for

Re: Intent to prototype: Character encoding detector

2019-12-05 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 12/2/19 7:42 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: Since there isn't a spec and Safari doesn't implement the feature, there are no cross-vendor tests. Could .tentative tests be created here, on the off chance that we do create a spec for this at some point? -Boris

Intent to prototype: Character encoding detector

2019-12-03 Thread Henri Sivonen
# Summary The template says this section should state the benefit to Web developers. There is intentionally no benefit to Web developers. This pair of features is meant to benefit users who encounter badly-authored legacy pages, so that Firefox can retain users instead of the users trying in