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Re: No new mime types


On 7/20/06, Henry Story <henry.story@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On 20 Jul 2006, at 17:55, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 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.

I don't quite understand what you are saying. In the following link

<link rel="categories" href="/cats"/>

which we can understand as pointing to a resource that gives a list
of categories available to the poster, there is no need to specify
the mime type of the representations served by </cats>.


Eh?  Of course there is.  How else would you know how to interpret the
bag-o-bits that you get back on a GET?  You can't follow your nose
from the string "categories" to a data format specification, AFAICT.

We know RDF solves the media type explosion problem, but Atom doesn't
use RDF, so it needs its own media type.

See;

http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect.html

Mark.