On Wed, 23 May 2007 04:05:26 +0200, Sander Tekelenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Anne, you seem to mean to refer to Style Sheets's Content-Types only, but
given some of the responses, and some other discussions about
Content-Type, I
take the liberty to interpret this as a more general argument against
Content-Type.
At 10:44 +0200 UTC, on 2007-05-22, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
For compatibility with the web it seems important to simply ignore
Content-Type in all modes.
I'm confused about "in all modes" in this context. I thouht the idea was
to do away with modes altogether?
Standards and quirks mode I meant. Firefox sort of "respects" the
Content-Type in standards mode but not really. Because we implemented
something that did completely respect it in standards mode we break
sites... Go figure.
With Content-Type, one can serve HTML, CSS, PHP, etc. as text/plain.
Useful to provide example code. I'm sure there are more use cases where
there is no single correct interpretation other than the one the author
specifies. Should we really make that impossible?
This was about loading style sheet resources. User agents know when
they're doing that. The same goes for loading image resources (from <img>
or background-image).
--
Anne van Kesteren
