[Bug 11984] <video>: Figure out the story with respect to honouring Content-Type headers vs sniffing content

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11984

--- Comment #60 from Adrian Bateman [MSFT] <adrianba@microsoft.com> ---
(In reply to Philip Jägenstedt from comment #59)
> As for changing to honor Content-Type, I don't think it would be very
> responsible of me to champion this. In Presto I ended up removing the
> Content-Type check because we had customers who (rightfully) thought it was
> annoying that their content wouldn't play, and I don't see why they would be
> any less annoyed today.
> 
> However, I'm still new in Blink/Chromium, I'll post on blink-dev to see if
> anyone has thoughts on this.

We just shipped an update to IE11 (v11.0.7) through Windows Update that changes
IE behaviour to ignore the Content-Type and always try to play the content. We
pass content to the media engine with only the allowed decoders enabled and if
the content can play then it does. We think this makes IE interoperable with
the Chromium approach.

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Received on Friday, 25 April 2014 21:11:39 UTC