- From: poot <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:16:54 -0400
- To: public-html-diffs@w3.org
hixie: apply wg decision (whatwg r5994)
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4816&r2=1.4817&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5993&to=5994
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agents must treat that type as equivalent to the lack of any
explicit <a href="#content-type" title="Content-Type">Content-Type metadata</a>
when it is used to label a potential <a href="#media-resource">media
- resource</a>.<p class="note">In the absence of a <!-- pretty crazy -->
- specification to the contrary, the <a href="#mime-type">MIME type</a>
- "<code>application/octet-stream</code>" when used <em>with</em>
- parameters, e.g.
- "<code>application/octet-stream;codecs=theora</code>", <em>is</em>
- <a href="#a-type-that-the-user-agent-knows-it-cannot-render">a type that the user agent knows it cannot render</a>,
- since that parameter is not defined for that type.<dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">media</var> . <code title="dom-navigator-canPlayType"><a href="#dom-navigator-canplaytype">canPlayType</a></code>(<var title="">type</var>)</dt>
+ resource</a>.<p class="note">
+ "<code>application/octet-stream</code>"
+ is special-cased here; if any parameter appears with it, it
+ should
+
+ be treated just like any other <a href="#mime-type">MIME type</a>.
+
+ This is a deviation from the rule <!-- in RFC 2046, section 1,
+ paragraph 3 --> that unknown <a href="#mime-type">MIME type</a> parameters
+ should be ignored.
+
+ <!-- but not really a "willful violation" since it's not that the
+ types are not being ignored, just that before the type is handled as
+ a type, there's a special case for a particular set of strings -->
+
+ <dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">media</var> . <code title="dom-navigator-canPlayType"><a href="#dom-navigator-canplaytype">canPlayType</a></code>(<var title="">type</var>)</dt>
<dd>
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