- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:42:01 -0700
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- CC: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 10/30/2011 5:56 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: > On 30/10/11 4:25 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >> Then he probably means file system files and not HTTP files, and support >> there has indeed been spotty in the past. > > Ah, yes. Regarding data: URIs, someone should really just amend the > RFC to allow specifying a content encoding. > That seems rather unnecessary. I'm almost certain that somewhere, it is specified that the browser should sniff the first few bytes of the file to see if it is compressed. It's minimal work. This also applies to the local file system; as in file:///.
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