At 15:33 +1200 19/06/09, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, David Singer
><<mailto:singer@apple.com>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.
we seem to have come full circle here. what we're saying is that our
experience with the plugin content is that it's non-trivial (in
excess of 10%). Whether the service providers would have fixed it if
we *didn't* provide sniffing, I don't know, but they seem remarkably
resistant to pressure...
--
David Singer
Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.