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So i guess the question is — should we keep markup for the case where someone downloads our webpage on a legacy browser? For me the answer is yes, if people ar

So i guess the question is — should we keep markup for the case where someone downloads our webpage on a legacy browser? For me the answer is yes, if people are using an old netbook on a dialup connection and they save your site locally to save data. That could be a good idea. I'll do some testing though because I think even old IE defaults to utf-8.

kijin 5y ago
The edge cases are hard to test. IIRC the weirdest issues had something to do with valid UTF-8 content the first X bytes of which also happened to be valid in some exotic charset related to the user's locale. English users would rarely come across such issues.
hsivonen 5y ago
IE defaults to the locale-dependent legacy Windows code page.