[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 #56 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> ---
I'm not sure why the scare quotes around "algorithm", it is one:

   http://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/#matching-an-audio-or-video-type-pattern

The bigger problem might be in the parsing algorithms leaving error handling
undefined (maybe that's where the scare quotes should be!).

I don't think just trying each decoder in turn until one doesn't give up is
going to get us the level of interoperability that we should strive for here,
but it's certainly closer than some browsers honouring Content-Type and others
not.

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Received on Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:10:17 UTC