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Re: Content sniffing, feed readers, etc. (was HTML interpreter vs. HTML user agent)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 03:58:14 +0000 (UTC)
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0905300357070.11443@hixie.dreamhostps.com> 
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Larry Masinter wrote:
>   
> As an example of something in the document for which
> scope is relevant, the issue of "content type sniffing"
> was raised.

Note that this section is scheduled for demolition as soon as Adam 
publishes his I-D as an RFC so that I have something to reference. The 
text in the HTML5 spec isn't being updated anymore and is only there so 
that implementors have something to reference.

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