---
title: "content sniffing sucks"
date: 2006-11-24T01:28:11-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2006/11/24/content-sniffing-sucks/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides, aggregators, rss, firefox, atom, xsl, xml]
---

# content sniffing sucks

<blockquote cite="http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=530">If you’re using FF2.0 go <a href="http://svn.smedbergs.us/wordpress-atom10/tags/0.6/wp-atom10-comments.php">here</a> and you’ll see why.<br />No, I don’t want to subscribe to a PHP template used to generate Atom feeds, thank you very much.</blockquote><div class="quotesource">Source: <a href="http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=530">snellspace.com » Blog Archive » Content Sniffing Sucks</a></div>

I know this is just taunting [the Happy Fun Ball](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Fun_Ball) I said [I was done taunting](http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/11/07/firefox-rss-xsl-from-anger-to-apathy) , but there's a [false-positive](http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/146f70eaf0e1686f/1daec246d79c7dbd#341e610fd279b5fc) for ya.  :)