Re: Of Authoritative Metadata and Content-Type

Norman Walsh wrote:
> I noticed this the other day:
> 
>   http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1144794177&count=1
> 
> Ian observes
> 
>      Browsers and other user agents largely ignore the HTTP
>      Content-Type header, relying on undefined sniffing heuristics to
>      determine what the content of a page really is.
> 
> and provides a very useful set of test data. However, I find his
> conclusion
> ...

Hm.

My understanding was that even Microsoft has stopped doing content 
sniffing, starting with IE 6 SP2.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 17 April 2006 21:48:02 UTC