Re: XBL media type?

On Aug 24, 2006, at 13:35, Robin Berjon wrote:

> On Aug 23, 2006, at 23:34, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Registered media types with corresponding file extensions tend to  
> make it into Apache (and other servers) pretty fast. Since people  
> do tend to upgrade those, new types tend to actually spread a lot  
> faster than many expect.

Do people really overwrite their config files with the new defaults  
when their overwrite their httpd binary?

-- 
Henri Sivonen
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Received on Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:00:49 UTC