Re: comments on draft-barth-mime-sniffing

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > The current HTML5 spec's position on this issue is that the 
> > Content-Type header is completely ignored in the processing of 
> > <video>, I believe.
> 
> Hmm, really? In our media element implementation, we honor Content-Type 
> completely and do no sniffing whatever.

I've updated HTML5 to require that Content-Types of types that are not 
supported cause the resource to be ignored (even if it would otherwise be 
supported).

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