- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:52:28 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, robert@ocallahan.org, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> Which raises an interesting question. If a <video> points to data that >> has Content-Type metadata that says it's application/octet-stream.... >> I'd say that the UA should ignore that and look at the actual data just >> like it would if the MIME type is not set. > > What should canPlayType() say for application/octet-stream? "maybe"? I can > define application/octet-stream as never being "a type that the user agent > knows it cannot render", which would give this behaviour and would mean > that user agents have to sniff. I personally would be fine with the above. -Boris
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