Are you saying that if I load a script via a <script> tag in a web page, then load it via importScripts() in a worker, that the result of loading that script in those two cases should/could be different because of different decoding mechanisms?<div>
<br></div><div>If that's what's being proposed, that seems bad.</div><div><br></div><div>-atw<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Simon Pieters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simonp@opera.com">simonp@opera.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:31:41 +0200, Jonathan Cook <<a href="mailto:jonathan.j5.cook@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonathan.j5.cook@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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The importScripts portion of the Web Workers API is compatible with existing scripts,<br>
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Only if those scripts don't use any of the banned interfaces and constructors, right?<div class="im"><br>
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but I'm all for more UTF-8 :) If the restriction is added to the spec, I'd want to know that a very clear error was going to be thrown explaining the problem.<br>
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I'm not sure that throwing an error is a good idea. Would you throw an error when there's no declared encoding? That seems to be annoying for the common case of just using ASCII characters. Throwing an error when there is a declared encoding that is not utf-8 might work, but are there many scripts that have a declared encoding and are not utf-8?<br>
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I think it is to just ignore any declared encoding and assume utf-8. If people are using non-ascii in another encoding, then they would notice by seeing that their text looks like garbage. Browsers could also log messages to their error consoles about encoding declarations declaring non-utf-8 and/or sequences of bytes that are not valid utf-8.<br>
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