- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:30:56 -0700
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
- Cc: WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 12:43 p.m. 10/01/98 +1000, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >Hmmm. Fine idea, but I suspect that in practice it won't happen. Most >browsers use the .xyz extensions to determine type automagically anyway. Actually most of them use the content-type set by the server. Some of them fall back on displaying text/plain or text/html based on the extension, or perhaps simply guessing or checking the system registry for that extension if they can't figure it out. So there would be advantage in setting TYPE attributes, in that the file wouldn't need to be downloaded from the server (to get the content-type HTTP header) in order to determine that it can't be displayed by the browser. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.idyllmtn.com/~kynn/ Chief Technologist & Co-Owner, Idyll Mountain Internet; Fullerton, California Enroll now for my online stylesheets (CSS) class! http://www.hwg.org/classes/ The voice of the future? http://www.hwg.org/opcenter/w3c/voicebrowsers.html
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