- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:45:22 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: W3C TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
Ian Hickson schrieb: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >> On Aug 8, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >>> This isn't because of lazyness. This is because ANY BROWSER THAT ACTUALLY >>> TRIES TO IMPLEMENT THESE THINGS WOULD LOSE ALL MARKET SHARE. >> No, that's total speculation. None of them have even tried to implement >> a configuration option for identifying incorrect content types as an >> error, let alone deployed it in the market. > > Actually, they have (and I've been directly involved with their > development, usually in a QA capacity). They never make it past the beta > release stage because the vendors get so many bug reports and complaints > about sites breaking -- critically important sites like cnn.com, > slashdot.org, hotmail.com, myspace.com -- that they have to revert to the > sniffing behaviour. > ... I would love to have access to a browser that signals to me when it reverted to content sniffing. Why not make it an "opt-in" behavior for now, so that at least content developers find out when their resources are misconfigured? Best regards, Julian
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