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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/offline.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#downloading-or-updating-an-application-cache Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#downloading-or-updating-an-application-cache Comment: appcache: remove the requirement for the MIME type Posted from: 12.249.26.78 by annevk@opera.com User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7.2; U; en) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.52
Having to set the MIME type requirement is apparently a serious problem for developers. Either not getting it to work at all or having to resort to PHP solely to set it correctly.
(In reply to comment #1) > Having to set the MIME type requirement is apparently a serious problem for > developers. Either not getting it to work at all or having to resort to PHP > solely to set it correctly. More info needed. Why is there a problem setting it for *developers*?
No sufficient control over servers. Developers working on/with Facebook, jQuery, Vodafone, all cite this as a problem.
Yes, this is the most consistent piece of feedback I've heard. Most people either can't or just don't know how to set the mime type for a file.
(In reply to comment #4) > Yes, this is the most consistent piece of feedback I've heard. Most people > either can't or just don't know how to set the mime type for a file. I'd like to get a clearer understanding on the details of "can't" and "don't know how". The latter is "just" a documentation problem. The former is harder to solve, and I'd appreciate more details about platforms where it's possible to deploy a complex webapp, but not possible to set a media type.
(In reply to comment #5) > I'd like to get a clearer understanding on the details of "can't" and "don't > know how". The latter is "just" a documentation problem. The former is harder > to solve, and I'd appreciate more details about platforms where it's possible > to deploy a complex webapp, but not possible to set a media type. I really don't know details, but given the consistency of the feedback does it matter? These are people who know that it's a requirement and it stops them - somehow - from using offline technology.
I agree with Christopher completely. It doesn't matter. This is a beautiful feature not being used because the threshold is too high. The fact that developers complain should only validate this issue.
(In reply to comment #7) > I agree with Christopher completely. It doesn't matter. This is a beautiful > feature not being used because the threshold is too high. The fact that > developers complain should only validate this issue. It may be that the threshold is too high, but that it doesn't have anything to do with configuring media types :-)
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r6823. Check-in comment: Make appcache no longer check for the MIME type. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6822&to=6823
The change seems incomplete as step 6 currently says "or if the resource is labeled with a MIME type other than text/cache-manifest or has parameters that do not match the conditions listed earlier, then run the cache failure steps. " What are the "conditions listed earlier" and what are the parameters by the way?
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6920. Check-in comment: Remove vestiges of MIME type checking in appcache. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6919&to=6920