- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:17:30 +0000
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Hi Adam, Ian, The Web Apps Working group recently became aware that the relevant section on content sniffing from HTML5 has moved to its own internet draft [1] (Content-Type Processing Model). As our Widget packaging spec [2] has some dependency on content sniffing, we would like to contribute to this specification where possible. Particularly, we would like to make sure that sniffing and appropriate MIME mappings are made when resources are read from local storage. At the moment, [1] reads: " For resources fetched from the file system, user agents should use platform-specific conventions, e.g. operating system extension/type mappings." We are concerned that operating system extension/type mappings might cause issues for widget engines because those mapping could be incorrect, or come from arbitrary sources etc. So we are looking to collaborate to resolve this issue and wondering if that can be standardized as part of [1]. Our current approach in [2] has been to provide a table with a bunch of file extension to MIME mappings. Kind regards, Marcos [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-abarth-mime-sniff-00 [2] http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/ -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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