RE: Application-specific media types

["Larry Masinter" <masinter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Within the media type text/xhtml, I expect that the W3C will define
> additional parameters that can help user agents interpret the contents
> of the resource more readily from the envelope. However, as with
> text/html, that is the W3C's problem to deal with. 

The optional and required parameters need to be specified when
the media type is registered.

Wouldn't application/xhtml be more appropriate? I know we've had
text/html in the past, but that was in a fit of fantasy that
someone could actually _read_ HTML as if it were text.

Larry