content-type sniffing, and other topics in WhatWG chat (the purpose of standards, plugins, accessibility, and other topics)

I thought I made some progress on uncovering the justification for content-type sniffing application/postscript, at least for Mac Safari users there is a postscript viewer that does something more useful with sniffed postscript (labeled as text/plain) than it would with text/plain itself or application/octet-stream.

The conversation is a little hard to wade through, but suggested reading for other nuggets:

http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090927

Larry
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