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> This trend of browsers to increasingly lie to me about what I'm looking at is infuriating. The browser does not lie to you, it just does not show the MIME ty

by q-big 4y ago

> This trend of browsers to increasingly lie to me about what I'm looking at is infuriating. The browser does not lie to you, it just does not show the MIME type of the content. I do agree that it would make sense that the browser shows the MIME type of the content that is currently displayed, but this is opposition to the current fashion (in particular pioneered by Apple) of "simplifying" everything.

deathanatos 4y ago
> The browser does not lie to you, it just does not show the MIME type of the content. In this particular case, Firefox does: > Picture1-2.png (WEBP Image, 1054 × 593 pixels) is the title on the tab. (The ".png" comes from the URL, as a sibling notes.) Chrome does not.