Re: Format for type attribute value from Boris Zbarsky on 2007-11-20 (public-html@w3.org from November 2007)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:16:40 -0600
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
CC: "public-html@w3.org List" <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <47425FA8.5070000@mit.edu>

Julian Reschke wrote:
> Multiple media-type values? What would that be good for?

Rendering the web?  In particular, it's not uncommon for servers (esp. when CGIs 
are involved) to produce things like:

   Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
   Content-Type: text/plain

which then get normalized to:

   Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1, text/plain

Not sure where that normalization happens offhand (server end or Gecko end).

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 20 November 2007 04:17:07 UTC