Which other application exactly do you have in mind? The applications I know mostly ask the opener.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert O'Callahan Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:46 AM To: Maciej Stachowiak Cc: Křištof Želechovski; Dave Camp; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ian Hickson; Aaron Boodman Subject: Re: [whatwg] Offline Web Apps On 9/23/07, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, I'm not sure how a web app can be expected to know the encoding of a text file on disk. The same way that any other app does --- guess based on the extension and expected usage? --- now that we've all standardized on meta-data-less file systems :-(. I suppose an app could examine the first chunk of the file and then re-read the file with a better guess. Rob
