Ian Hickson wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Sam Ruby wrote:
(*) I can only presume that the current HTML5 draft reflects Ian's
current thinking on the matter which is that certain media types are to
be treated as authoritative, and others are to be treated as a hint and
possibly overridden based on sniffing.
Actually, it doesn't. I think we should dump Content-Type altogether. The
spec represents the closest I could get to the existing specs (in
particular HTTP) without being ignored by browser vendors. There are many
things in the HTML5 spec that I disagree with, but that are there because
rational arguments were made and evidence presented. Another example of
something in HTML5 I don't want there is the /> nonsense you argued for. :-)
OK, then perhaps it reflected your thinking at one time?
http://intertwingly.net/blog/2006/04/13/Dont-throw-charset-out-with-the-bathwater#c1169761908
In any case, I'm currently of a mind that all the text/* mime types are
beyond saving, but the rest are worth fighting for. For what it is worth.
- Sam Ruby
