Re: [whatwg] [mimesniff] Review requested on MIME Sniffing Standard

2012-11-13 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:12:53 +0100, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Gordon P. Hemsley wrote: In that case, I need to know which you think you might want for HTML and which you know you won't. (I don't know of any other specs reliant on mimesniff.) We may one day need a set of rules

Re: [whatwg] [mimesniff] Review requested on MIME Sniffing Standard

2012-11-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Gordon P. Hemsley wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Gordon P. Hemsley wrote: > >> But if everyone vows to just wait for 512 bytes (or EOF), then that's > >> fine with me. > > > > I don't think we should require tools to wait

Re: [whatwg] [mimesniff] Review requested on MIME Sniffing Standard

2012-11-12 Thread Gordon P. Hemsley
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Gordon P. Hemsley wrote: >> But if everyone vows to just wait for 512 bytes (or EOF), then that's >> fine with me. > > I don't think we should require tools to wait for 512 bytes. This is an > area where if we have the requ

Re: [whatwg] [mimesniff] Review requested on MIME Sniffing Standard

2012-11-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Gordon P. Hemsley wrote: > > But if everyone vows to just wait for 512 bytes (or EOF), then that's > fine with me. I don't think we should require tools to wait for 512 bytes. This is an area where if we have the requirement, some user agents are just going to have a timeo

Re: [whatwg] [mimesniff] Review requested on MIME Sniffing Standard

2012-11-12 Thread Henri Sivonen
Thanks for pursuing this. Resending feedback previously written at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=808593#c10 : I think the bits ‘type is equal to "font" or’ and ‘type is equal to "archive" or’ are highly questionable. The most popular font types are in the process of getting applica

Re: [whatwg] [mimesniff] Review requested on MIME Sniffing Standard

2012-11-12 Thread Gordon P. Hemsley
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > Resending feedback previously written at > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=808593#c10 : > > I think the bits ‘type is equal to "font" or’ and ‘type is equal to > "archive" or’ are highly questionable. The most popular font types

[whatwg] [mimesniff] Review requested on MIME Sniffing Standard

2012-11-05 Thread Gordon P. Hemsley
Hey all, As you might have heard, I have taken over editorship of the MIME Sniffing Standard from Adam Barth. As a first step in my editorship, I have taken the opportunity to rewrite the document in a more procedural and modular way (IMO). The content and meaning itself is not supposed to have c