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Another telling gem is StackOverflow page doesn't even have a proper encoding declaration. They declare the encoding in the HTTP Response. Content-Type:text
by mhansen 15y ago
Another telling gem is StackOverflow page doesn't even have a proper encoding declaration.
They declare the encoding in the HTTP Response.
Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8
That's totally proper. If you specify it again inside the HTML, are you gaining anything?
- alecco 15y agoIt's not wrong by itself, but making content encoding implied might become an issue later (e.g. load balancers or CDN, merging content or improving support on east-asian languages). It's likely they've never faced those kind of issues.
- acdha 15y agoAgain, it's not implied when you state it categorically in headers. If there's a CDN or load balancer out there which breaks your Content-Type headers it's much, much better to replace it with something which follows HTTP a bit closer.
- alecco 15y agoVery often you don't have control over that. It might be managed by a different team of the organization or might be a poor product purchased by higher management. Or it could be a third party service. You have to code defensively.
- acdha 15y agoRest assured, I've been in that sort of situation. However I've never found it viable long term to take on additional complexity rather than pushing back against a group which is obstructing progress - ultimately you're accepting more work and risk to help reduce the pressure on them to stop underperforming.