Re: First draft of work published which removes the dependency on HTML::Parser from HTTP::Message

Gisle Aas <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Feb 2010 22:05:27 +0100

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http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#determining-the-character-encoding
specifies how to pre-scan an HTML document to sniff the charset.
Would it not be simpler to just implement the algorithm as specified
instead of using a generic parser.  The use of HTML::Parser to
implement this sniffing was just me trying a shortcut since
HTML::Parser seemed to implement a superset of these rules.

--Gisle