- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:08:44 +0100
- To: John Kemp <john@jkemp.net>
- CC: "Eric J. Bowman" <eric@bisonsystems.net>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 25/02/2013 17:40 , John Kemp wrote: > The reason that text/plain vs. text/html comes up so often is that it is > a very clear description of one problem with sniffing - that the author > intended the representation to be displayed as text without HTML > interpretation. I'd be less charitable. I think that this example keeps coming up because proponents of authoritative metadata cannot think of any other example :) I'd be interested in being proven wrong though! > Although I agree that metadata sent from the server is less > authoritative than one would hope, I do not agree that a user-agent can > even accurately represent the wishes of the user in this case, let alone > comply with them. Well, there's <plaintext> for that if you're sure that that's what you want. For all the other cases it would seem that View Source can work. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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