- From: Dean Jackson <dino@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:25:36 +1000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Mark Baker <mbaker@rim.com>, public-appformats@w3.org
On 23/08/2006, at 8:12 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > Thus I don't think it is necessary for us to define a MIME type > beyond the > generic application/xml. XBL will be found in XML sent with all > kinds of > MIME types. I agree with your points. However, I still think it is worth defining a MIME type for (at least) the following reasons: - it's a fairly small amount of effort (possibly with the exception of the security section, but you already have to write that for the spec in general) - it *might* be nice for applications that want to do something special when coming across content that is marked as XBL. For example, a hypothetical browser may display XBL files in an interesting way or have some super cool editing mode. If we only use application/xml then it would have to sniff. (Yeah, I know you think Content-Type is dead) Dean
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