Re: comments on draft-barth-mime-sniffing

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:

> But I may well be able to re-author my HTML but completely unable to
> influence my hosting provider to provide the correct MIME types.  I don't
> want users trapped into using the old because we've made the new
> inaccessible to them.
>

Out of all the things video hosting providers have to do, sending correct
Content-Types seems like one of the smaller ones.

I would like to see how big a problem this turns out to be before we embrace
sniffing.

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]