[tlug] "Standards: Why You Should Care, and When You Shouldn't" [was: Why am I not seeing Japanese in my web page on my Android?]

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Darren Cook writes:

 > >  > A meta-tag should override the http header.
 > > 
 > > It maybe *should*, but it *don't*.
 > 
 > I first wrote "will override" then thought about browser bugs so changed
 > it to "should". Thanks for the standards information;

Heh, heh.  Would anybody be interested in a presentation per the
subject?  If so, which standards do you most want to hear about?

 > > I suspect that the underlying problem is either that the HTTP header
 > > of the main HTML document has a bogus charset parameter 
 > 
 > If I've understood the problem correctly, the html document now works
 > (after adding the meta tag), but it is the json data (presumably sent
 > via ajax) that is not. And only on one browser (on android).
 > 
 > But if it isn't http headers, and isn't the html document, what is left?!

Well, it could be a browser bug, of course.  However, these AJAX
thingies can be pretty complex behind the scenes.  Dave may have fixed
a document that isn't actually the one handling the JSON, for example.
Think "frame" here.  Or there may be some DOM manipulation that's
confusing the browser about what "the" document is.

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