[whatwg] Section 5.7.3.3 Parsing cache manifests

Alexey Proskuryakov ap at webkit.org
Tue Dec 30 08:17:07 PST 2008


Dec 30, 2008, в 7:09 PM, timeless написал(а):

>> I suggest changing the signature to "^<BOM>?CACHE MANIFEST" - then  
>> it will
>> be easier to verify, and it will be possible to add comments at the  
>> end.
>> This is how we have it in WebKit now, and changing the check to the  
>> more
>> strict HTML5 one may affect existing clients.
>
> this means we could never do:
> "^<BOM>?CACHE MANIFEST2"


If incompatible changes to the format are ever needed, we can change  
Content-Type.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov





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