Re: please review: application/smil MIME type registration

Peter,

I presume your use case is that a client should be able to 
request a SMIL-basic document via content-negotiation ? 
This is not the way SMIL basic works. 

All SMIL 2.0 documents are also SMIL basic documents
http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/smil-basic.html#BaseGuideNS-BasicDoc

However, SMIL basic user agents interpret only a well-defined
subset of the markup that may occur in a SMIL 2.0 docucment (see
clause 5. and 7. at
http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/smil-basic.html#BaseGuideNS-BasicUserAgent

To avoid an unsatisfactory user experience, an author can
1) only use markup defined for SMIL basic
http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/smil-basic.html#smilBasicNS-Basic
2) write a "scalable document" that adapts gracefully depending
on whether it is played on a SMIL 2.0 or a SMIL basic user 
agent:
http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/smil-basic.html#smilBasicNS-GuideDoc

The same approach can be applied to any profile, not just SMIL 
basic, and there is thus no need to use the MIME type to distinguish
between profiles.

-Philipp

"Peter Stark (ECS)" a écrit :
> 
> How does can it be used to distinguish between full SMIL 2.0 and a profile such as SMIL Basic?
> 
> PS
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Philipp Hoschka [mailto:ph@w3.org]
> > Sent: den 21 juni 2001 18:03
> > To: ietf-types@iana.org
> > Cc: www-smil@w3.org
> > Subject: please review: application/smil MIME type registration
> >
> >
> > We'd like to start the two-week review of
> >
> > http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoschka-smil-medi
> > a-type-08.txt
> >
> > describing the registration of the application/smil MIME type for
> > SMIL 1.0 and SMIL 2.0.
> >
> > -Philipp Hoschka, W3C
> >

Received on Friday, 22 June 2001 13:47:41 UTC