Re: content sniffing (and HTTP profiling)

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Adam Barth wrote:
>> >
>> > To be precise, they allow servers to opt out of content sniffing in
>> > certain specific cases. It doesn't affect, for instance, how the
>> > Content-Type header is treated for images (e.g. an image/png image
>> > sent as image/gif is still treated as a PNG, even with this header
>> > set, if I'm not mistaken;
>>
>> IE8 has a more awesome implementation than Chrome.  In IE8, these images
>> won't render
>
> Even in <img> elements?

I think so.  /me goes and makes a test case.

Adam

Received on Wednesday, 8 April 2009 05:49:16 UTC