- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:17:55 +0200
- To: "Adam Barth" <w3c@adambarth.com>, "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa.dusseault@messagingarchitects.com>
- Cc: "HTTP Working Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:57:12 +0200, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote: > Which types browsers sniff for has been fairly stable for a reasonable > period of time. I haven't studied historical sniffing algorithms in > detail, but I believe image/png was the most recent type added to > widely used algorithms. In my view, content sniffing is most useful > for interoperating with existing Web content. It might be worth > having a registry for new types, but I'd expect we'd only add a new > type on the order of every 5-10 years. I sort of expect <video src> and <audio src> to do sniffing as well (ignoring Content-Type altogether most likely). @font-face ignores Content-Type as well because nobody had registered media types for fonts. This is context-specific sniffing though. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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