- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:20:55 +1100
- To: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Cc: public-cdf@w3.org
Hi Bert, On 1/29/06, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org> wrote: > 2) 3.1 Identification > > A type like "text/xhtml+xml; profile=WICD" would be easier to > understand, easier to remember, shorter, would not look like a URL and > would not need quote marks. A parameter like that would also be > case-insensitive, like the rest of the MIME type. Per RFC 3236 (as Anne referenced), the value of the profile parameter must be a URI, so that's why we used one. > Also, WICD is a text/* type, not application/*. The most useful fallback > for a UA is to show it, not to save it to disk. That's why it has a > charset parameter. Actually, it's generally agreed in IETF circles that "text/html" was the incorrect type to use for HTML, which is the reason the former HTML WG opted for "application/xhtml+xml" for XHTML. See; http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-mime/mail-archive/msg00622.html For that reason, and because we want to be able to reuse existing supported media types, we have decided to stick with application/xhtml+xml. Thanks very much for your interest in our work. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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