Murray Altheim wrote:
I don't believe that
resorting to file extensions can possibly be the way of the future.
I agree that it should not be the way of the future, but there is some
evidence that implementors are moving in this direction. Try serving up
a PNG file labelled as image/png but with a .gif extension to a popular
browser and see what happens ;-(
Similarly, try serving up an XML file with a .txt extension as
text/plain and some browsers will still complain "unable to display XML
file with stylesheet" and faiul to display it as text - they are
sniffing in the content.
This is, apparently, because of the amount of unlabelled or mislabelled
content which already exists.
We all need a better alternative.
Yes. We also need one fairly quickly (all done and dusted in, lets say,
three months tops) otherwise whatever solution is proposed will merely
be a good idea, but too late.
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Chris