At 15:33 +1200 19/06/09, Robert O'Callahan wrote: >On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, David Singer ><<mailto:singer@apple.com>singer@apple.com> wrote: > >But I may well be able to re-author my HTML but completely unable to >influence my hosting provider to provide the correct MIME types. I >don't want users trapped into using the old because we've made the >new inaccessible to them. > > >Out of all the things video hosting providers have to do, sending >correct Content-Types seems like one of the smaller ones. > >I would like to see how big a problem this turns out to be before we >embrace sniffing. we seem to have come full circle here. what we're saying is that our experience with the plugin content is that it's non-trivial (in excess of 10%). Whether the service providers would have fixed it if we *didn't* provide sniffing, I don't know, but they seem remarkably resistant to pressure... -- David Singer Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
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