- From: Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 01:20:00 -0500
- To: Bill Bereza <bereza@pobox.com>, www-html@w3.org
On 23 Jan 98, Bill Bereza <bereza@pobox.com> wrote: > [..] > So, if TYPE and Content-Type mismatches are an error, than TYPE goes > from being barely useful to outright dangerous. There's no way that > an HTML authour is going to always be able to be sure that TYPE will > match Content-Type. If this error can result in the browser blowing up, > or some other non-specified action, than it would be safest to avoid the > use of TYPE altogethor. Dangerous? Blowing up a browser? That's done already by authors publishing pages with too many multimedia objects and buggy Java applets. Protecting authors from themselves by ignoring the TYPE attribute is no solution to vendors' inability to make a crash-proof browser. Rob ----- "The word to 'kill' ain't dirty | Robert Rothenburg wlkngowl@unix.asb.com I used it in the last line | http://www.asb.com/usr/wlkngowl but use the short word for lovin' | http://www.wusb.org/mutant and Dad you wind up doin' time." | PGP'd mail welcome (ID 0x5D3F2E99)
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