On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:53:12 +0100, Glenn Maynard <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]>
wrote:
If we can make it a deterministic, unchanging, and defined algorithm, I
think that would actually be acceptable. And ideally we do define that
algorithm at some point so new browsers can enter the existing market
more easily and existing browsers interpret existing content in the
same way.
We don't have any untagged content to support yet, so let's not create an
API that guarantees it'll come into existence. The heuristics you need
depend heavily on the content, anyway (for example, heuristics that work
for HTML probably won't for ID3 tags, which are generally very short).
What I replied to suggested reusing an existing undocumented code path
which is definitely used to support existing content. From what I remember
reading about the detector in Gecko it can be quite useful regardless of
context.
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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
