Re: comments on draft-barth-mime-sniffing

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:25:43 +0200, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:
> Simon Pieters wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:55:29 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>>> I've updated HTML5 to require that Content-Types of types that are not
>>> supported cause the resource to be ignored (even if it would otherwise  
>>> be supported).
>>
>> If a UA does not know what is not supported, is it reasonable to  
>> consider anything that is not video/* or audio/* to be not supported?
>
> For video, content negotiation is probably going to end up being done
> in Javascript rather than HTTP, or by User-Agent recognition.

Still, if the user agent does a request, should it abort the request if the media type of the response is not video/* or audio/*?


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Received on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:33:10 UTC