28740 - Auto-Detect selection should not require reload in META charset page

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[Teruko Kobayashi]

When you view the Meta charset page and you select some Auto-Detect menu, the page should not be reloaded.

Steps of reproduce
1. Go to http://home.netscape.com/ja/  (This page has Shift_JIS Meta charset).
2. Select menu View|Auto-Detect (Korean) or Auto-Detect (Chinese)

The page will be reloaded. The Auto-Detect menu selection should not the page to reload.

Tested 2000022108 Win32, Mac, and Linux build.

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

reassign to cata

Comment 2

[cata]

Frank, Bob, what's the resolution on this issue? My accepting vs. invalidating 
this bug depends on it.

Comment 3

[bobj]

For now, Accept it.
I think we will probably want auto-detect to override just as a charset 
selection will override.  For example if a SJIS page is mismarked as EUC-JP,
then overriding it with Ja auto-detect would be useful.  This appears to be
the same behavior used by IE.

Comment 4

[cata]

Ok, but I didn't think this had anything to do with override...

Comment 5

[bobj]

Since we have not implemented override, we should not be reloading now (and
that is how 4.x behaves).  But when you implement override, we'll reload for
the override value.  This bug should become invalid then.

Comment 6

[bobj]

Made this bug dependent upon bug 7886, the charset override bug.

Comment 7

[cata]

No, Auto-Detectors do not override yet. Moving to M17...

Comment 8

[cata]

So, since we decided that the autodetectors will not override, this bug becomes 
invalid. Reload is here to stay.

Comment 9

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Verified.