- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:31:39 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: Robert Miner <RobertM@dessci.com>
- cc: <aswartz@swartzfam.com>, <hammond@csc.albany.edu>, <mozilla-mathml@mozilla.org>, <www-talk@w3.org>
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Robert Miner wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
>> Would you also like PNGs incorrectly identified with the MIME type
>> text/html due to circumstances beyond the authors control to be sent to
>> PNG decoders?
>
> Is this a trick question, perhaps? I think I would, wouldn't I? At
> least it seems like I would be happier just having the image appear
> properly, than having it interpreted as horribly garbled HTML. What's
> the catch?
Should we throw away the whole basis of MIME types and the HTTP
Content-Type header, and just use content sniffing instead?
text/html adj: not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished:
"a text/html file". Said of documents whose exact content type is
not known, for example a dynamically generated image. Historically
used to describe HTML; this usage is deprecated in favour of
requiring user agents to magically guess at the contents of data
streams labelled as text/html. [syn: vague, unknown] [ant: defined]
Source: WordNet 4.2, (c) 2012 Princeton University
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