- From: Henrik Andersson <henke@henke37.cjb.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:42:25 +0100
- To: Yoav Weiss <yoav@yoav.ws>
- CC: Jake Archibald <jaffathecake@gmail.com>, liam@w3.org, robert@ocallahan.org, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, W3C CSS Mailing List <www-style@w3.org>
If only there were a standardized way of indicating the media type of a file... Like say, a centralized register where people could apply for their names. Preferably run by some standards body. Or to be blunt: Lets use mime types. Yoav Weiss skriver: > A common abbreviation for "jpeg2000" is "j2k". > Otherwise, you left out "apng" (again :) ) from the list. > > Regarding format variants (such as JPEG with arithmetic coding, > currently not supported by any browser, can provide files that are 10% > smaller on average), will there be some convention for their naming? > Will each variant added require a spec change? > > We should aim to prevent a situation where browsers add their own, > conflicting names for the same format variant. Will we need vendor > prefixes for that? > >
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