- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 12:32:06 -0000
- To: www-html@w3.org
> From: Daniel Hiester [SMTP:alatus@earthlink.net] > > MSIE does it by file extension, I believe... > MSIE uses a number of heuristics. E.g. text data that starts <html> is HTML regardless. I think the basic heuristic is that commercial web server users are unlikely to have configured the meta data correctly, hence using content and filetype heuristics, and client side processing of HTML META elements.
Received on Wednesday, 1 December 1999 07:34:50 UTC