Vocabularies WD draft

Norman Gray norman at astro.gla.ac.uk
Fri Jan 18 08:02:02 PST 2008


Tony, hello.

On 2008 Jan 18, at 15:38, Tony Linde wrote:

> Prob not much help but it renders ok in IE7 (which might be why others
> haven't complained)

It renders OK in Safari, too, which is why I didn't notice it.

Both these browsers are being naughty: RFC 2616 explicitly forbids  
browsers from sniffing the content type in those cases where a  
content-type header is present:

> Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a
>    Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. If
>    and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field,  
> the
>    recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its
>    content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify  
> the
>    resource.
[Sect: 7.2.1]

I've sumbitted a Safari bug report.

Norman
[full-on standards lawyer]

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