Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>
> This whole discussion is theoretical so far. The question is what theory we
> should select and put into practice.
>
I was worried this would appear next week. :-) To me, the "accept" attribute
seems to be designed by someone who thinks that a name defines an object,
which is silly.
> If we can't figure out the file type based on what the OS tells us, and we
> can't figure it out based on the contents, we call it octet-stream, of course.
> That's what the type is for.
>
Sure, but is the overhead of examining the content worth it, particularly
since the results will be useless almost immediately.
> That would require quite a good bit of code to be redesigned (which may not be
> a bad thing, mind you).
>
> Boris
I think it's necessary. Mozilla (and its descendents) currently assumes it has
complete control over the machine. That's bad. Removing special cases should
also improve size and probably speed.
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Pluto
2003-08-13 11:28:33.858 UTC (JD 2452864.978170)
X = -5.798761278, Y = -29.216771019, Z = -7.370506065
X' = 0.003143183, Y' = -0.000737442, Z' = -0.001177162
