Bug 15755
| Summary: | HTML5: WebKit should accept all image/* MIME types and use content sniffing to determine the actual type | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) <ddkilzer> |
| Component: | Images | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | NEW | ||
| Severity: | Enhancement | CC: | abarth, ian, jmalonzo |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 523.x (Safari 3) | ||
| Hardware: | Mac | ||
| OS: | OS X 10.4 | ||
David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)
Per Hixie's comment in Bug 15640 Comment #9:
> I don't have any data, but, HTML5 suggests treating all image/* types as
> equivalent and using magic bytes to distinguish them.
I'm not sure if the machinery (CFNetwork, etc.) on OS X currently does this, or whether it uses the MIME type returned from the server combined with file extensions to determine the actual image type.
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