- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:16:49 -0800
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- CC: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 12/9/09 5:54 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > This is incorrect. In the Firefox 3.0 development cycle we tried to > change our implementation to match HTML 4, but had to revert due to > breaking websites. To be clear, Firefox 2.0 and earlier always gave @type priority over the Content-Type header. We tried to change this to match HTML4, as Jonas says, and ran into a whole slew of site compatibility issues that we then spent a fair amount of time resolving, mostly by going back to the old behavior in certain special cases... -Boris
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