[whatwg] Content-Type (was Style sheet loading and parsing

Sander Tekelenburg st at isoc.nl
Sat May 26 23:34:12 PDT 2007


At 16:42 +1200 UTC, on 2007-05-27, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> On May 23, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Sander Tekelenburg wrote:

[...]

>> The argument for using file name extensions is that they can provide a
>> clue as to what sort of file is being pointed to

[...]

> <http://urlx.org/google.com/0a8e8> is a URL without a suffix, which is
> quite understandable, because the whole point of urlx.org is to make
> short URLs. It redirects to a Google Cache URL ending in ".pdf", which
> is quite understandable, because it's a cache of a PDF document. But
> the cached version itself is HTML.

Yeah, that's what I said in the next paragraph ;)


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