- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:46:41 -0400
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Dan Connolly wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 16:57 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: > [...] >> Unfortunately, based on the quick list I gathered below, there is a >> competitive advantage to be gained by ignoring the spec as it currently >> stands. > [...] > > Is this feedback on the Internet Draft-to-be? > http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/cts/ I believe so. That document suggests that "text/plain" is authoritative. That does not appear to be the behavior of current browsers, and as much as I would like them to, I have my doubts that browsers will change their sniffing of feeds to conform to this standard as there are a large number of pre-existing feeds for which "better" results can be obtained by ignoring this standard. - Sam Ruby
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