Re: Questions about draft-abarth-mime-sniff-00

On 2009/04/07 5:17, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 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.

Just a very small historic detail in this context: Around 1996/1997,
there was an attempt to register a top level media type of font/,
but that failed. I think that contributed to the fact that font
types didn't get registered.

Regards,    Martin.

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Received on Tuesday, 7 April 2009 01:24:08 UTC