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Section 7.4.1 of SMIL 2.1

"The type attribute value takes precedence over other possible sources
of the media type (for instance, the "Content-type" field in an HTTP
exchange, or the file extension)."
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/PR-SMIL2-20050927/smil21.html#extended-media- 
object-edef-ref

conflicts with TAG findings on the topic:

http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect-20040225

which were discussed with the WG...

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/symm/2003Jul/0009

Please fix the spec to say that HTTP works just like RTSP.

On behalf of the TAG,

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:45:29 UTC