- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:31:42 +0200
- To: Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Robert Collins wrote: > ... > If they assume that fixing all the bust clients they have been shipping > for years is infeasible, then I think they would have concluded its the > right way. > > I think its bogus - it requires every web site author in existence to > change their site to fix a defect in MSIE. Thats got to be harder to > deploy than just a hotfix to MSIE to not sniff at all. 'Sorry, bad idea, > fixed in hotfix #12345.' > ... Well, not only MS is guilty of sniffing (although they may have started it), and the HTML5 spec has lots of details on how to do it (<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#content-type-sniffing>), although it at least allows UAs not to sniff (*). BR, Julian (*) Need to check: is this the case throughout the spec, or are there exceptions?
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