- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:15:24 -0700
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Cc: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>, robert@ocallahan.org, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
On Jun 16, 2009, at 11:12 PM, Adam Barth wrote: > I think roc was specifically referring to content for the <video> tag. > Because no such content currently exists, the legacy compatibility > requirements are much less onerous than, say, for HTML. I think Dave's point was that if you support codecs and containers in <video> that are currently supported by widely used plugins, then you are more likely to face these legacy issues with broken MIME types when deploying <video>. Content authors might well expect that already published MP4 files which work in the QuickTime plugin or a Flash- based player, should continue to work if embedded via <video>. But there isn't a similar volume of already-deployed Ogg Theora files being served with a broken MIME type, so it's not likely there would be a similar expectation. To be fair, though, we didn't go through the exercise of being stricter about types, so we can't say definitively if there would be complaints. - Maciej > > Adam > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Shane McCarron<shane@aptest.com> > wrote: >> This is my favorite comment in this thread, bar none! Why, oh why >> are you >> all trying so hard to continue to support broken behavior instead of >> slapping down the people who insist on doing it wrong? If the user >> agents >> (go Firefox!) just refused to sniff, then no one would send nonsense >> content. 'cause it wouldn't work. >> >> Robert O'Callahan wrote: >>> >>> I should also point out that so far we have had approximately zero >>> complaints from authors about the fact that Firefox doesn't sniff. >>> >>> Rob >>> -- >>> "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our >>> iniquities; >>> the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his >>> wounds we are >>> healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has >>> turned to his >>> own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us >>> all." [Isaiah >>> 53:5-6] >> >> -- >> Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 >> x120 >> Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 >> ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com >> >> >> >
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