On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:56:07AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309438 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361892 for how it came to this value. Especially, read the last comments in the first one.
I've read both, and I don't really see a compelling reason to change the old behavior. Please forward or fix this.
It is my preference that application/xhtml+xml be given a higher priority than text/html, but if that is not possible, then I want it to appear first (in absolute position) in the list. application/xml should appear second (in absolute position), if possible, although this may be controversial. Alternatively, Iceweasel may provide a place to provide an explicit Accept header, configurable by the user (about:config is not acceptable).
I also disagree with the statement in 309438:q=0.9 on text/html is evidently required so we can advertize our virtuousness to servers who can send XML in addition to more-or-less-the-same HTML. But naughty, dirty, sinful HTML is not going away, ever; there are billions and billions of pages of it out there. So why are we burning cycles and fiber on text/html;q=0.9? What good are we doing by that little bandwidth "sin" tax?
XML is the way of the future. HTML doesn't provide automatic well-formedness checks, and won't, unless Iceweasel starts implementing an SGML parser. While HTML might not be going away, Iceweasel can certainly declare it less favorable, which IMHO, it is.
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