- From: Nicholas Shanks <contact@nickshanks.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:47:09 +0200
On 24 Jul 2008, at 10:12 am, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Shadow2531 wrote: >> >> If text/plain is sent, I expect it to fail unless you have a text/ >> plain >> plug-in installed. Even then though, the video wouldn't play because >> it'd be a text/plain plug-in, not a video plug-in.. However, if no >> type >> at all is sent ( like if you're loading a local page that embeds a >> local >> wmv file), then I'd say use the extension as a backup. > > There are a lot of videos sent as text/plain. I'm not sure we can > ever get > around that. I would really like a browser with preference I can activate that turns off all kinds of sniffing and hacks that the browser does to support the ?real internet? (so, in this case, it would display text). This would be incredibly useful as a debugging tool when working on large web sites that I didn't author. ? Nicholas Shanks. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2427 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080724/e3f3431f/attachment.bin>
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