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Re: comments on draft-barth-mime-sniffing

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:18:49 -0400
Message-ID: <4A2C7509.1090807@mit.edu>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
CC: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Am I right that the Content-Type merely says the type of the container
> format, and says nothing about the format of encoded video(s) within?

I believe this is correct.  Certainly the MIME type Gecko looks for 
where video is concerned is video/ogg or application/ogg.

I would hope that container formats define how to figure out the types 
of media streams they contain.  If they don't, then that's unfortunate....

-Boris
Received on Monday, 8 June 2009 02:19:38 UTC

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