- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 18:37:59 +0200
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
At 18:27 +0200 7/07/08, Julian Reschke wrote: >Dave Singer wrote: >> >>At 17:46 +0200 7/07/08, Julian Reschke wrote: >>>>An alternative might be to add a header "look, I guessed it" when >>>>Apache adds a 'guessed' text/plain as the content-type, and say >>>>that browsers might take text/plain+IGuessed as something to >>>>sniff. This is like the proposed Microsoft header but the other >>>>way up... >>> >>>I agree that's nicer in theory. But how do we get all the existing >>>installations to change their DefaultType? >> >>Well, someone has already said that the IE upgrade rate is less >>than 50%. There are a lot more clients (browsers) than servers out >>there, and system admins tend to be better at upgrading than users >>(because they get security fixes along with bug fixes). So fixing >>the server end of the equation with an extra "look, I guessed, I >>might be wrong" might get us closer to a better position faster >>than fixing the browser end. > >But if we can get server admins to change their default to >"text/plain; butIguessed", we probably can also get them not to send >a default, right? (*) But adding a new piece of information (probably) breaks no-one, whereas leaving out content-type seems much more dangerous... -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime
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