Has there been any progress with this effort? Specifically, I'm wondering if there is a bug on bugs.webkit.org that we are using to track this task.
Cheers, Adam On Friday 14 November 2008 5:53:56 pm Adam Barth wrote: > Ok. I'll file a bug report at http://bugreport.apple.com/ with > several things that should be easy to change. In parallel, we can > investigate moving the sniffing algorithm to WebKit. > > Thanks, > Adam > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Darin Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Adam Barth wrote: > >> One disadvantage of moving the algorithm is that we might make some > >> unintended changes. > > > > Another disadvantage is that any other Mac OS X libraries or applications > > that rely on the sniffing done by CFNetwork will no longer get the same > > results as WebKit clients. > > > > Also, I don't think we've established yet if we can turn off the sniffing > > in CFNetwork and keep the other desirable CFNetwork features working. > > There are a number of closely related features, such as the one that > > determines the suggested filename for a download. > > > > I think the concept of moving the sniffing into WebKit is great if we can > > execute it successfully. I'm worried that it may be difficult to do that > > in the Mac OS X version and the Windows version used by Safari. > > > > -- Darin > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
