- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 02:47:59 +0100
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 01:21:59 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > if I'm wrong (and I probably am) then I would oppose it yes, and would > > suggest application/prs.hixie.html (and a +xml one for the XML version) > > for development and testing yes. > > Well that's not going to happen... For one it wouldn't degrade gracefully. Oh, does graceful degradation matter whilst we're developing it, it's perfectly possible to get IE6 to render a document sent as that as if it had been sent as text/html - I would hope the other browsers have similar extension mechanisms for enabling new mime-types to be identified with some tweaking. After all no-one's going to be shipping release code during this development phase. > Oh you are complaining that when a document sent using one of the three > default Apache Content-Type headers with content that violates those > headers by including illegal bytes, Mozilla (and Opera) attempt to detect > the content to see if it is actually binary data instead of displaying > (what is guarenteed to be) garbage? No, the media types one, which I can't easily find but was on http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ at the previous release, it wasn't just the above feature. Ah, here we are: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7GUgc.115%24_o3.1200%40bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net " Firefox 0.8 and Moz 1.7b both have this fixed. The browser sniffs the file and offers to download it and open it in yourt default media player." The text/plain document in question contains no invalid characters Jim.
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