- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:34:09 +0300
- To: public-appformats@w3.org
On Aug 23, 2006, at 21:32, Mark Nottingham wrote: > Media types tend to be used for purposes that you aren't planning > for right now... Surely in order to reap any useful network effects from an installed base the MIME type needs to be widely deployed. New MIME types are hard for average authors to deploy (because usually the author is not in charge of the server config). Moreover, if there are no immediate must-have benefits today, there's no incentive for people out there to deploy a new MIME type. I think sniffing for a BOM or an XML decl works better than character encoding information on the HTTP level. Likewise, I believe that sniffing for a magic number or the root namespace works better than type information on the HTTP level. And the IANA process for registering MIME types is dysfunctional as demonstrated by the amazing slowness with the registrations of image/ jp2 and movie/mp4. So I think trying to deploy a new MIME type is not worth it-- especially if it is only for purposes that aren't planned. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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