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Firefox did this recently, with great success. It's a simple solution that will reduce memory usage (and this, garbage collection). It makes perfect sense.
by Skinney 11y ago
Firefox did this recently, with great success. It's a simple solution that will reduce memory usage (and this, garbage collection). It makes perfect sense.
- SiVal 11y agoHTML is ISO 8859-1 by default, which privileges that legacy encoding within conformant browsers and web servers. That's the reason for all the "character entity" stuff. The same is not true of Java.
- justincormack 11y agoNo longer true, HTML5 is UTF8 by default.
- gsnedders 11y agoHTML is a locale specific encoding by default. (No, really.) Most locales default to windows-1252, not ISO-8859-1. That said, all conforming HTML documents must now use UTF-8.