- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:54:58 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Nicholas Shanks wrote: > 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. Several browsers actually have this feature. I recommend raising thus with your respective browser vendors. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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