- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:58:09 -0800
- To: julian.reschke@gmx.de
- Cc: bzbarsky@MIT.EDU, public-html@w3.org
having an end-user opt out in the browser is a really important thing for developers who care to be able fix things before they publish broken content. Julian Reschke writes: > > Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > ... > >> Speaking of which: can I turn off content sniffing in the FF config? > > > > Not at the moment, no. It wouldn't be too hard to add a preference for > > this, I suppose... Not sure it's worth it. What are the use cases? > > The use case would be to give people a choice between "what the > developers claim is necessary" and "what the currently applicable specs > say". > > I'd really like to be able to opt-out of content-sniffing -- for > instance, it would make it more likely that I actually find out about > broken content types on my own server. > > Speaking of which it would be really great if there'd be an (optional) > indication if the server-supplied content type and the sniffed content > type disagree (would a FF extension have the necessary information to do > that?). > > BR, Julian > -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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