Re: [tlug] Firefox 3.0.1 doesn't respect <meta http-equiv="content-type">

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Edward Middleton writes:
>
>  > What I presume Curt is saying is that adding descriptive metadata 
>  > necessary to reliably read the contents of a file, in an encoding 
>  > specific to the file, is inherently stupid because you have to already 
>  > have this information in order to read the encoded metadata.
>   

> that's factually incorrect in several ways, and generally wrong-headed.
>   

Care to explain the several things you see as being factually incorrect, 
and why you think this is wrong-headed?

Edward