- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:52:12 +0100
- To: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- CC: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 22/02/2013 10:42 , "Martin J. Dürst" wrote: > If you/we were able to redesign the Web (or let's go a bit further and > say "all of computer infrastructure"), then how would you get a browser > to display any format with such a magic number,... as plain text? Many > formats, HTML and XHTML included, are at the same time plain text. In addition to Anne's explanation, I'll point out that this ability to treat a format as if it were another is more easily a security risk than a feature. If you can get a format interpreted one way with the media type and then another when reloaded from disk you can get past some checks. > But maybe you have a better idea? <plaintext> works great. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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