- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:40:18 +0100
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Jonas Sicking wrote: > ... >> Summarizing from my point of view: >> >> - HTML5 currently requires ignoring authoritative metadata in some >> cases. The information in [2] indicates that in at least one >> measurement, this "fixed" around 1% of pages using <object> >> >> - Firefox changed to the HTML5 behavior (or something close to it) >> early 2008 > > 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. Yes, sorry. I meant to say "changed *back*". > There is lots of good data in the bugs I cited. And suggestions for > further reasearch. > > If someone feels passionate about this I suggest they do the remaining > research as well as getting the know broken sites fixed. *That* has a > much greater chance of getting implementations to change than anything > any spec says. Step 1 is to *allow* a UA to treat the HTTP content-type as authoritative. BR, Julian
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