- From: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:26:25 +0000
I don't see the problem with this. Object is a tag to represent just about anything, even text/html renders in an object. Can you identify a use case where you *need* to know before you get a content-type header? Gaz On 17 Mar 2007, at 15:17, Matthew Raymond wrote: > Laurens Holst wrote: >> So make the object mime type optional, only indicative. It will >> receive >> it from the server anyway. > > The problem with dropping the MIME type is that files on the > Internet > don't require extensions. They already have MIME types. Therefore, > as a > web author looking at someone else's markup, how would you identify if > the following are images, video or audio?... > > | <object data="sonido"></object> > | <object data="immagine"></object> > | <object data="s?rie da televis?o"></object> > | <object data="suono"></object> > | <object data="MyFamily"></object> > | <object data="pel?cula"></object> > | <object data="pintura"></object> > | <object data="Nature"></object> > | <object data="Ton"></object> > | <object data="Fernsehenerscheinen"></object> > | <object data="WhoKnows"></object> > > > With a <video> element, you know it's video just by looking at it.
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