- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:40:29 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, Chris Double <chris.double@double.co.nz>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, robert@ocallahan.org, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > 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. So done. On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Chris Double wrote: > > If it's defined as a type that we never know if we cannot render we can > still choose not to render it and therefore don't have to sniff, for > those user agents that choose not to implement sniffing of media types, > right? How would you handle no Content-Type at all? I'm saying that application/octet-stream should be treated like that. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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