Re: new frag id - RE: Comments on "Locators for Web Publications"

Le 13/12/2017 à 21:05, Timothy Cole a écrit :

> Do we also have consensus that there will be no new media type registered for Packaged Web Publications? If so, we must delete section 4.1.1 and 4.1.1.1. 


FWIW, everything already has a media type: html documents, text files,
EPUB packages. Unregistered files fall back to application/octet-stream
or text/plain. Our problem is that fragment identifiers are meaningful
for a given media type, at best for a group of media types (eg. an area
into an image/* resource). Even on a local filesystem, the media type is
(sometimes incorrectly) inferred from the file extension, more rarely
from file contents' sniffing (think /usr/bin/file).

I think it's out of question to override the existing media types with a
new one. Example: is a EPUB package a PWP? If yes and if we give PWP a
media type, that new media type will "hide" application/epub+zip, a
probable no-go. Similarly, I doubt publishers will change the file
extension of their packages to allow mime type sniffing server-side; so
EPUB packages will remain *.epub and then application/epub+zip.

So my take on this topic is the following: we don't need to waste time
discussing something that is impossible.

</Daniel>

Received on Thursday, 14 December 2017 10:19:04 UTC