Re: content-type sniffing, and other topics in WhatWG chat (the purpose of standards, plugins, accessibility, and other topics)

Larry Masinter wrote:
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> I thought I made some progress on uncovering the justification for 
> content-type sniffing application/postscript, at least for Mac Safari 
> users there is a postscript viewer that does something more useful with 
> sniffed postscript (labeled as text/plain) than it would with text/plain 
> itself or application/octet-stream. 
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> The conversation is a little hard to wade through, but suggested reading 
> for other nuggets:
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> http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090927
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Related to this: I'd be interested to hear from people looking just at 
the words in HTML5 whether they think content type sniffing is required 
or not.

BR, Julian