- From: Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 17:17:08 -0400
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 5/29/09 4:37 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> On Fri, 29 May 2009, Sam Ruby wrote: >>> As to whether or not everybody will accept that the rules written in >>> HTML5 apply to everybody, I submit the following as a test case: >>> >>> http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/EC2API.rss >>> >>> Heck, it is not clear to me that *browsers* will accept that that >>> particular rule applies to them. >> >> Could you elaborate on how this doesn't work with the rules in HTML5? >> (Or rather, with the rules in Adam's ID?) > > That resource is served with a text/plain mime type, and therefore > should not be treated as a feed. > > At the present time, both IE8 and Firefox treat that document as a feed. > My assessment is that Firefox will continue to follow IE's lead in > this area, but I will gladly defer to those who actually work on the > product. Firefox 3.5 will not sniff text/plain. No bug reports so far, afaik. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394416#c14 - Rob
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