- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:53:40 -0500
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 3/2/2013 7:26 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > Martin was asking about > being able to force plain text rendering of content that looks like HTML When I've given talks about authoritative metadata, I use an example exactly like this, except it happens to be focused on XML. To make the example easy to understand, I've put up a little demo Web site at: http://webarch.noahdemo.com/Metadata/ View Source is not a good answer for this one. The demo is years old and has some no-longer interesting references to IE6, but what's important is that modern browsers, including IE, do honor the authoritative metadata for the text/plain transmission. If text/plain is sniffed, then any legitimate content that would trigger the sniffing just can't be transmitted in the natural way on the Web. Indeed, someone building a text/plain application like the one in the demo would have to take care to avoid sending any streams that could trigger unintended sniffing. Noah
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