- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:41:09 -0500
- To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Cc: Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com>, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 20:46 -0700, David Hyatt wrote: > On Apr 3, 2007, at 7:19 PM, Elliott Sprehn wrote: > > > Neither of which are standardized behavior so you'd need to use the > > attribute for Safari, the viewsource url for Firefox, and what ever > > feature was supported in Opera (is it?). > > > > What Karl suggests on the other hand is defined behavior as per the > > HTTP protocol and the MIME type definition for text/plain. > > > > We can't turn off content sniffing. Sites break if we do. Which sites? I'd like to get a sense of the magnitude of the issue. > "Don't > break the existing Web" trumps all other design considerations. I think it's a valuable design principle to consider, but it's not hard-and-fast rule. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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