[whatwg] [mimesniff] Handling container formats like Ogg

Gordon P. Hemsley gphemsley at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 09:19:13 PST 2012


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Gordon P. Hemsley <gphemsley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would this be something UAs would prefer to handle in their Ogg
>> library, or should I spec it as part of sniffing?
>
> What would be the use case for handling it as part of sniffing layer?

I don't know; that's why I'm asking! :)

Is it sufficient to sniff just for "application/ogg" and then let the
UA's Ogg library determine whether or not the contents of the file can
be handled? (I'm sensing the consensus is yes.)

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