- From: Joe D Williams <joedwil@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:56:50 -0700
- To: <robert@ocallahan.org>, "David Singer" <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>, "Adam Barth" <w3c@adambarth.com>, "Shane McCarron" <shane@aptest.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Larry Masinter" <masinter@adobe.com>, <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, <public-html@w3.org>
> ... they seem remarkably resistant to pressure.. The best way is to show them exactly what you wish to be done. One step in the cycle is getting the servers to provide an expected or at least approriate content type with the content. I think in some servers this may be done by some level of automation that follows the main MIME list. In general, the community process keeps track of mimes that people and organizations are interested in registering for the maintained list. Then, I think servers are free to update themselves re the 'official' list. Usually it seems to take a while longer for the mime to be offical than for content to be published. In this time, the server guy can easily configure the server to deliver most any mime for any file extension as the web author wishes. Browsers know about MIMEs and the connection with file extensions or other content model definitions when some are native and some are added by all sorts of web features and applications that get loaded into people's computers. I think that when content publishers are convinced that the W3C host browsers care and are actually using the things to add some production value (or even security and reliability) they will be responsive. But these are seasoned producers and you may have to go there and tell tell tell them using actual representative working examples of flexible and highly reusable cross-browser behaviors using HTML 5 code and content. For instance, I think text/html uses the mime definition to help because the mime helps predict that the sniffer may find a content type string somewhere up close to the beginning. Tool makers and authors use special and standard mimes, extensions to mimes, and file extensions for many reasons, even to distinguish 'public' from 'special' content. Thank You and Best Regards, Joe "There is good stuff built into the MIME scheme of doing things that we don't even know about anymore."
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