- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:00:33 +0300
- To: public-appformats@w3.org
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 hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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