- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:03:55 +0100
- 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 2011-10-31 18:42, 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'll be tricky with respect to backwards compatibility; but it could be worth a try. > 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:///. Hm, no. It's not specified, and seems like a bad idea to do. Best regards, Julian
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