Re: (aside) MIME type (was> Re: Re: [Clipboard] checking if implementation allows reading/writing a given type to the OS clipboard) from Paul Libbrecht on 2012-02-18 (public-webapps@w3.org from January to March 2012)

From: Paul Libbrecht <paul@hoplahup.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:15:28 +0100
To: Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen <hallvord@opera.com>
Cc: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org>, public-webapps@w3.org
Message-Id: <26540F5A-586C-44B0-AE65-0A61809871AA@hoplahup.net>

WHEN I registered a media-type on the ietf list I have been quite much hit as the first comment "one says media-type nowadays". And indeed MIME is meant for email originally.

So I guess politically media-type is a requirement.
Should I dig for a formal requirement?

paul


Le 18 févr. 2012 à 00:54, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen a écrit :
>> Hallvord, it should be called media-types btw, or?
> 
> IMHO the term "MIME type" is more widely used and also less ambiguous than "media type", so I'd definitely prefer using the former if I can get away with it :)
> 
> -- 
> Hallvord R. M. Steen
> Core tester, Opera Software

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