- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:08:46 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Gordon P. Hemsley" <gphemsley@gmail.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, whatwg List <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Received on Monday, 12 November 2012 23:09:31 UTC
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Gordon P. Hemsley wrote: > > But if everyone vows to just wait for 512 bytes (or EOF), then that's > fine with me. I don't think we should require tools to wait for 512 bytes. This is an area where if we have the requirement, some user agents are just going to have a timeout anyway and ignore the spec; we gain nothing by making it non-conforming to have a timeout. > > What are the use cases for ‘Sniffing archives specifically’? > > No idea. I only included it for completeness. Please don't spec things for completeness without use cases. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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