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Bloglines: Psssssst. Hit m. You’ll thank me later

Not exactly.  I used to have a bookmark — Note: do not click on that link if you are an active Bloglines user unless you want all your unread items marked as read — and for the last week or so, the accelerator keys stopped working for me.  Now I understand why.

Instead of breaking things that used to work, I’d really appreciate if Bloglines could handle basic things like whitespace, links, relative URIs, and plain text.  Oh, and fix a few security holes.  And be a bit more responsive.

Otherwise, I’ll continue to wave my arms and gesticulate wildly.  Expect more stunts.

Ian Hixie: I think it may be time to retire the Content-Type header, putting to sleep the myth that it is in any way authoritative, and instead have well-defined content-sniffing rules for Web content.

The reason why people can safely enter non-Latin-1 characters in my comments and have them presented properly to all consumers that have installed the appropriate fonts is that these pages specify charset=utf-8 in the content-type header.

Sniffing for the character encoding used is clearly not the answer.  Nor am I convinced that meta http-equiv is either.

Mark Pilgrim: Please take this opportunity to relate amusing anecdotes about your vasectomy.

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