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

On 5/30/09 1:46 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Larry Masinter<masinter@adobe.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Is this an "Informational" document ("Please be aware there are
>> misconfigured HTTP servers and here's some good ideas how to
>> deal with them") or does it have normative requirements?
>>      
>
> My opinion is that the document should say the following:
>
> 1) User agents SHOULD NOT sniff.
> 2) If a user agent does sniff, then the user agent MUST use the
> following sniffing algorithm.
>    

I think the document should say something like "This algorithm is what 
browsers are converging on. If you want to match them, you MUST use this 
algorithm."

That is informational.

- Rob