Re: No new mime types

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@xxxxxxxx>]

Big +1 and well-said.

It's easy to forget that the user-agent (or other consuming software)  
isn't the only thing working with this stuff.


On 2006/07/09, at 1:45 PM, Joe Gregorio wrote:

> On 7/9/06, Henry Story <henry.story@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Here is a suggestion. APP should define no new mime types. XML can
> > just be served as application/xml  if needed. If there is a need to
> > identify the type of object at the end of a relation new relation
> > types should be defined.
>
>
> Mime-types are used for dispatching on the web, without
> looking into the entity body to determine how to
> dispatch. It's a fundamental precept of the web.
>
> "I don't like it" is not a reason to change the spec.
>
> You have in now way argued that a new mime-type will hurt
> interop or violate the architecture of the web.
>
>   -joe
>
> --
> Joe Gregorio        http://bitworking.org


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