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Bournegol

Last change: 2007-10-15

Browser Compatibility

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On this page I collected various browser compatibility nits and picks that I care about. This mostly includes standards compliance in very grey and as-of-yet-underused areas like character set conversion.

Form Data Submittal

accept-charset
Does the browser correctly parse & use the accept-charset attribute of the form element (ok) or is it being ignored (notok).
encoding
If your page is coded in utf-8, how does the browser return form data in string entries, does it use the document character (ok) or does it transmit something else (notok).
content-type
Does the browser transmit a Content-Type (including a charset argument) (ok) or is the interpretation of the data totally left to the application (notok)?
uri-enc
When the browser submits the arguments for a GET-request, will it use the document encoding (aletrnatively: specify the encoding it used) (ok) or will it use something else (notok).
Browseraccept-charsetencodingcontent-typeuri-encnotes
Lynx
2.8.2rel.1 (01 Jun 1999)
notok ok ok ok ok
Netscape
4.76 Linux
notok ok notok ok ok
MSIE
5.0
notok ok notok ok ok
w3m
0.1.3
notok ok notok notok notok
Netscape
6.0 Linux
ok ok notok ok ok
Amaya
4.0
crash crash crash crash crash
Konquerer
KDE 2.0
notok notok notok notok notok
Opera
5.06b6/Linux
notok notok notok notok notok

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