- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:08:16 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Andrew Oakley wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > I'm not sure exactly what change you mean. The spec already has some of > > Gecko's behaviour (in particular the special-casing of certain MIME types > > to enable sniffing), are there other changes you think we should include? > > Boris Zbarsky wrote (near the top of this thread): > > If the type attribute was set to something that parsed as a MIME > > type, and if that type would be handled by a plug-in (that is, we > > have a plug-in to handle it, and have no other method for handling > > it), then use the type attribute's type instead of the header type. > > So if we had a type attribute of application/x-shockwave-flash, and a > Content-Type header of image/png we would use the flash plugin. > Following the HTML5 spec we would use the image renderer. Ah, yes, that's intentional (doing otherwise violates HTTP1.1). Is this something you're forced into for compatibility? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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