[whatwg] <embed> feedback

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Nicholas Shanks wrote:
> On 24 Jul 2008, at 10:12 am, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Shadow2531 wrote:
> > > 
> > > If text/plain is sent, I expect it to fail unless you have a 
> > > text/plain plug-in installed. Even then though, the video wouldn't 
> > > play because it'd be a text/plain plug-in, not a video plug-in.. 
> > > However, if no type at all is sent ( like if you're loading a local 
> > > page that embeds a local wmv file), then I'd say use the extension 
> > > as a backup.
> > 
> > There are a lot of videos sent as text/plain. I'm not sure we can ever 
> > get around that.
> 
> I would really like a browser with preference I can activate that turns 
> off all kinds of sniffing and hacks that the browser does to support the 
> ‘real internet’ (so, in this case, it would display text). This would be 
> incredibly useful as a debugging tool when working on large web sites 
> that I didn't author.

Several browsers actually have this feature. I recommend raising thus with 
your respective browser vendors. :-)

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