- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:20:49 +0200
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 19.07.2010 20:09, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > ... > For Safari/WebKit, we wanted to make it possible for the<video> element to play content that was previously embedded via the QuickTime plugin or other plugins we support. Unfortunately, a fair proportion of such content is being served with the wrong MIME type, most typically application/octet-stream but sometimes also text/plain. We thought it might create too high a barrier, if authors had to reconfigure their Web servers before they could switch from the QuickTime plugin to<video>. > ... Thanks for the feedback. So, does this make Safari non-compliant? It appears so, as draft-abarth-mime-sniff doesn't mention sniffing for video, and the spec text about video/@src doesn't seem to make an exception. Best regards, Julian
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