review of "The root element" subsection from Andrew Sidwell on 2007-07-09 (public-html@w3.org from July 2007) (original) (raw)

Robert Burns wrote:

Charset attribute

Suggest adding charset attribute to root element rather than adding a charset name to the element. This will be easier for authors to use. It will also be easier for UAs to pre-parse. (Rob Burns)

The rationale for the attribute combination is that UAs already implement it, because people tend to leave things unquoted, like:

Thus, adding an element to the root element would add yet another place UAs have to check for charset data.

Andrew Sidwell

Received on Monday, 9 July 2007 11:39:59 UTC