- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 06:04:31 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Karl Dubost wrote: > Le 5 d?c. 2006 ? 11:38, Ian Hickson a ?crit : > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Karl Dubost wrote: > > > > > > 2. When people edit files locally on their filesystem (outside HTTP > > > world) and they put them online through FTP (outside HTTP world), to > > > finally reach a folder controlled by a Web server (inside HTTP > > > World), troubles are starting. > > > > There aren't really any troubles, though, since the problem has always > > been with getting people to use MIME types other than text/html, and > > here we're saying "use text/html". > > they are troubles when servers use another mime type than "text/html" According to my data, there are virtually no such cases. > User X is writing a file like the ol' time home page. Give a name to the > file "boo.doc", "boo.txt", "boo.cool". User X uploads the file on the > Web server. There are troubles. Hypothetically, this could happen, yes. But it's a rare occurance according to the data I have, and we have much bigger problems to deal with. > The question comes because it would be interesting to have a mechanism > to help to fix the mimetype when necessary. HTTP is being worked on; I recommend speaking with the HTTP group. Fixing the HTTP specification is somewhat out of scope for HTML5; we're already pushing the envelope with the whole "sniffing for RSS" thing. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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