- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:57:52 +0200
Devil's advocate. On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:40:18 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote: > On 8/31/10 3:36 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> The Microsoft guys responded to my suggestion that they might want to >> implement something like this with "what's the benefit of doing that?". > > One obvious benefit is that videos with the wrong type will not work, > and hence videos will be sent with the right type. > > If the question is what the benefits of that are, one is that the "view > video in new window" context menu option actually works. If you sniff you can sniff there too. > Another benefit is that you can send someone the link to the video, > instead of the embedding page, and it will work. If you sniff you can sniff there too. (Unless that user uses a competitor's browser, but that would be an incentive to encourage that user to use the sniffing browser.) > Another is that when you save the video to disk the browser will fix up > the extension correctly, if needed. If you sniff you can fix it up correctly too. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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