- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:13:54 -0800
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > On Mar 3, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Adam Barth wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 03.03.2010 17:05, Sam Ruby wrote: >>>> >>>> "Clarify that mime type sniffing is optional" >>>> >>>> Per the decision policy, at this time the chairs would like to solicit >>>> volunteers to write Change Proposals. >>>> >>>> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/104 >>>> http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html#escalation >>>> >>>> If no Change Proposals are written by April 5th, 2010 this issue will be >>>> closed without prejudice. >>>> >>>> Issue status link: >>>> http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-104 >>> >>> I volunteer to write this CP. >> >> Julian, would you be willing to summarize (e.g., in one sentence) what >> resolution you intend to propose? I'm happy to update the >> Internet-Draft to make this clearer without needing to go through the >> whole Change Proposal process. > > I think Julian wants HTML5 to either say using MIMESNIFF is optional, or for > to say sniffing is optional in addition to MIMESNIFF saying sniffing is > optional (not sure which, from past discussion). > > There is significant prior discussion in the bug: > <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7744>. Thanks for the pointer. I had forgotten that bug somehow. Sorry for the noise. Adam
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