- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:15:22 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, robert@ocallahan.org, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > Which raises an interesting question. If a <video> points to data that > has Content-Type metadata that says it's application/octet-stream.... > I'd say that the UA should ignore that and look at the actual data just > like it would if the MIME type is not set. What should canPlayType() say for application/octet-stream? "maybe"? I can define application/octet-stream as never being "a type that the user agent knows it cannot render", which would give this behaviour and would mean that user agents have to sniff. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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