- From: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:10:16 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
- CC: "e_lawrence@hotmail.com" <e_lawrence@hotmail.com>
Ian Hickson wrote: > This is exactly why this won't work. Sites will use this correctly, > then someone will set some default somewhere incorrectly, or copy and > paste a correct site somehow, or misunderstand a tutorial or something, > and deploy it without testing in IE8. And it will work fine in all the > browsers except IE8, an then IE8 will be patched to make this attribute > trigger a slightly different (and smaller) set of content-sniffing No. > The way out of this mess is containment. We define a strict set of > Content-Type sniffing rules that are required to render the Web, and we > get the browsers to converge on only sniffing for those. Indeed. And we're providing a way for content providers to opt out of that mess. -Chris Wilson
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