Re: Revisiting Authoritative Metadata (was: The failure of Appendix C as a transition technique)

On Feb 22, 2013 9:32 AM, "Robin Berjon" <robin@w3.org> wrote:
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> On 22/02/2013 10:29 , "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
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>> In that scenario, how would you get a browser to display any format with
>> such a magic number,... as plain text? Many formats, HTML and XHTML
>> included, are at the same time plain text.
>
>
> Obviously, for legacy reason we're stuck with media types forever. But
this doesn't mean we should propagate that to new formats, or claim that it
was a good idea.

+1 to this and to the suggested clarification.

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Received on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 09:04:20 UTC