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html-encoding-sniffer

2.0.0

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Version 2.0.0 Details

Html-encoding-sniffer is a lightweight npm package designed to accurately detect the character encoding of HTML documents directly from a byte stream, crucial for proper text rendering and data processing. Version 2.0.0 represents a significant update from the older 1.0.2, reflecting improvements in both dependencies and development practices.

A key difference lies in the dependency on whatwg-encoding. Version 2.0.0 upgrades this to ^1.0.5 from ^1.0.1 in version 1.0.2, suggesting enhanced encoding support and potentially bug fixes within the encoding detection logic itself. Developers should note this upgrade for improved standardization and correctness in identifying various character encodings. Further driving standardization, the supported eslint version goes from ^3.8.0 to ^6.8.0.

Furthermore, the development environment received an update, indicated by upgrading mocha from ^3.1.2 to ^7.0.0 and eslint from ^3.8.0 to ^6.8.0. This reveals updated testing capabilities and code linting rules for more maintainable code.

The later version was released in January 2020 in comparison to the October 2017 release of the older version, which indicates that there are over 2 years of fixes and improvements that make upgrading a wise decision. For developers relying on accurate HTML encoding detection, version 2.0.0 of html-encoding-sniffer offers a more modern, reliable, and well-tested solution compared to its predecessor thanks to its updated dependencies and development pipeline.

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