- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:23:41 +0200
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- CC: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Adam Barth wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> Adam Barth wrote: >>> I recommend the experiment I mentioned, compiling a browser without >>> content sniffing and actually trying to use the web for a reasonable >>> amount of time. >> Or switch it off in the browser, when on IE7: >> <http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/02/01/364581.aspx#364853>. > > Oh nice, I didn't know about that. I've attached an (untested) patch > that I think turns off content sniffing in TOT Firefox for those that > would like to try this out. It would be great to have that as an opt-in in FF3 -- it's bad when the browser uses content sniffing (or needs to); but it's even worse that page authors have no simple way to find out it happened. BR, Julian
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