- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 02:14:00 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Sam Ruby wrote: > > (*) I can only presume that the current HTML5 draft reflects Ian's > current thinking on the matter which is that certain media types are to > be treated as authoritative, and others are to be treated as a hint and > possibly overridden based on sniffing. Actually, it doesn't. I think we should dump Content-Type altogether. The spec represents the closest I could get to the existing specs (in particular HTTP) without being ignored by browser vendors. There are many things in the HTML5 spec that I disagree with, but that are there because rational arguments were made and evidence presented. Another example of something in HTML5 I don't want there is the /> nonsense you argued for. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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