- From: Mike Hanson <mhanson@mozilla.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:50:45 -0700
- To: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Cc: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Oct 31, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Charles Pritchard wrote: > 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. Work in progress: http://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/ mh
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