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

[Philip Jägenstedt]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:00:55 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:

> On 9/7/10 3:29 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
>> * Sniff only if Content-Type is typical of what popular browsers serve
>> for unrecognized filetypes.  E.g., only for no Content-Type,
>> text/plain, or application/octet-stream, and only if the encoding is
>> either not present or is UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1.  Or whatever web servers
>> do here.
>> * Sniff the same both for video tags and top-level browsing contexts,
>> so "open video in new tab" doesn't mysteriously fail on some setups.
>
> I could probably live with those, actually.
>
>> * If a file in a top-level browsing context is sniffed as video but
>> then some kind of error is returned before the video plays the first
>> frame, fall back to allowing the user to download it, or whatever the
>> usual action would be if no sniffing had occurred.
>
> This might be pretty difficult to implement, since the video decoder  
> might consume arbitrary amounts of data before saying that there was an  
> error.

I agree with Boris, the first two points are OK but the third I'd rather  
not implement, it's too much work for something that ought to happen very,  
very rarely.

-- 
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software