Re: comments on draft-barth-mime-sniffing

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> Which raises an interesting question.  If a <video> points to data that 
>> has Content-Type metadata that says it's application/octet-stream.... 
>> I'd say that the UA should ignore that and look at the actual data just 
>> like it would if the MIME type is not set.
> 
> What should canPlayType() say for application/octet-stream? "maybe"? I can 
> define application/octet-stream as never being "a type that the user agent 
> knows it cannot render", which would give this behaviour and would mean 
> that user agents have to sniff.

I personally would be fine with the above.

-Boris