- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:55:36 +0200
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
- cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote: >Ah, so you count all server setup as sniffing. That seems tobe a >significant dilution of the term. No, it's not "sniffing"; it's "guessing". And it's actively and demonstrably harmfull, not to mention completely unmaintainable. To wit, MSIE will treat will treat a document called "foo.gif" as HTML regardless of any "image/gif" MIME type if it finds the string "<html" somewhere in the first 256 bytes of the file. As Jim mentions, it's impossible to know whether the author intended text/html or application/xhtml+xml, or even image/svg+xml, for something with the extension ".html". It could very well be intended as "XHTML+SVG"! Or not have a filename extensions at all. Or... -- I'm [less] than thrilled by the [VM situation]; all sides of it. I [think] we need a [fork] in that area so that you guys would stop stepping on each others' toes. I'm taking no part in your merry 5-way clusterfuck -- sort that mess out between yourselves. -- Alexander Viro on lkml
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