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

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 9/1/10 10:59 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>     I hasn't actually happened for MIME types in toplevel documents
>     (modulo the one known workaround for a common server issue with
>     text/plain).  By and large, browsers don't sniff toplevel browsing
>     contexts, and the one browser that does has been losing market share.
>
> sureley that's not the reason it's losing market share ;-)

My point is that the "if you don't sniff all your users will leave" 
argument is overly simplistic.

-Boris