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

[Philip Jägenstedt]

I think we should always sniff or never sniff, for simplicity.

Philip

On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:14:48 +0200, David Singer <singer at apple.com> wrote:

> what about "don't sniff if the HTML gave you a mime type" (i.e. a source  
> element with a type attribute), or at least "don't sniff for the  
> purposes of determining CanPlay, dispatch, if the HTML source gave you a  
> mime type"?
>
>
> On Sep 8, 2010, at 2:33 , Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> David Singer
> Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
>


-- 
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software