- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:49:00 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Jim Ley wrote: > > > > > > if I'm wrong (and I probably am) then I would oppose it yes, and would > > > suggest application/prs.hixie.html (and a +xml one for the XML version) > > > for development and testing yes. > > > > Well that's not going to happen... For one it wouldn't degrade gracefully. > > Oh, does graceful degradation matter whilst we're developing it Yes. We want to test things in realistic scenarios. > > Oh you are complaining that when a document sent using one of the three > > default Apache Content-Type headers with content that violates those > > headers by including illegal bytes, Mozilla (and Opera) attempt to detect > > the content to see if it is actually binary data instead of displaying > > (what is guarenteed to be) garbage? > > No, the media types one, which I can't easily find but was on > http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ at the previous release, it > wasn't just the above feature. > > Ah, here we are: > http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7GUgc.115%24_o3.1200%40bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net > > " Firefox 0.8 and Moz 1.7b both have this fixed. The browser sniffs the > file and offers to download it and open it in yourt default media player." > > The text/plain document in question contains no invalid characters Yes it does. What you are referring to is exactly what I describe above. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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