[whatwg] Video with MIME type application/octet-stream

Simon Pieters simonp at opera.com
Thu May 20 06:50:45 PDT 2010


On Thu, 20 May 2010 12:46:16 +0200, Simon Pieters <simonp at opera.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 May 2010 12:36:36 +0200, Simon Pieters <simonp at opera.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:55:01 +0200, Robert O'Callahan  
>> <robert at ocallahan.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I just became aware that application/octet-stream is excluded from  
>>> being a
>>> type "the user agent knows it cannot render".
>>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#a-type-that-the-user-agent-knows-it-cannot-render

Apparently this was done in response to:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jul/0888.html
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3497&to=3498

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software



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