[whatwg] [mimesniff] Review requested on MIME Sniffing Standard

[Gordon P. Hemsley]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Gordon P. Hemsley wrote:
>> But if everyone vows to just wait for 512 bytes (or EOF), then that's
>> fine with me.
>
> I don't think we should require tools to wait for 512 bytes. This is an
> area where if we have the requirement, some user agents are just going to
> have a timeout anyway and ignore the spec; we gain nothing by making it
> non-conforming to have a timeout.

I'm inclined to agree with you, but I'm curious what other
implementers have to say on the issue.

>> > What are the use cases for ‘Sniffing archives specifically’?
>>
>> No idea. I only included it for completeness.
>
> Please don't spec things for completeness without use cases. :-)

In that case, I need to know which you think you might want for HTML
and which you know you won't. (I don't know of any other specs reliant
on mimesniff.)

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