[Bug 11482] Requiring MIME types like application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document in order to allow a .docx file to be uploaded is far too technical for the layman. On the other hand it is equally impractical for web developers to keep an

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11482

--- Comment #5 from Anne <annevk@opera.com> 2011-01-11 09:30:33 UTC ---
I think before extending this further we should first have solid
implementations of accept="" as it stands today. The use case for "image/*" for
instance is really big but there is not many user agents that do something
clever with it.

(This is also the reason file extensions are not that nice as you cannot do
something clever with them. You can just filter. If you have the media type you
could offer a shortcut to Word for instance. If you just have the file
extension that becomes a bit more dodgy.)

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