- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:06:46 -0400
On 9/7/10 9:03 AM, Philip J?genstedt wrote: > On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:54:15 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote: > >> On 9/7/10 6:52 AM, Philip J?genstedt wrote: >>> It hasn't been explicitly stated, but I assume that the only cases where >>> sniffing for video formats would be employed would be for missing >>> Content-Type, text/plain and application/octet-stream. >> >> That's not what at least Aryeh is proposing, no. Also not what at >> least some of the browsers implement. > > Oops, I was talking about top-level contexts here. In a <video> context, > always ignoring the Content-Type and always sniffing is the most sane > solution (apart from always respecting Content-Type). Yes, the suggestion Aryeh is making is that toplevel contexts should use the same sniffing algorithm as the <video> context and should sniff everything for video, completely ignoring the Content-Type header. -Boris
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