[whatwg] Re: Is this introducing incompatibilities with future W3C work

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sat Jun 26 11:38:05 PDT 2004


On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Jim Ley wrote:
>
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:49:00 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > > The text/plain document in question contains no invalid characters
> >
> > Yes it does. What you are referring to is exactly what I describe above.
>
> Sniffing of ASX files (a bit of XML almost always ASCII only) served
> as text/plain and passing it to the mediaplayer is what you describe
> above?  I thought you were talking about invalid characters in there.

As far as I am aware, Mozilla has never autodetected XML when sent as
text/plain. If it does, that's a bug, and not intentional. If you can
provide a URI that demonstrates this I will investigate.

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