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- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:08:21 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11482 --- Comment #14 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-11-11 23:08:19 UTC --- File extensions aren't any more exact than MIME types, IMHO. What's the format of a .doc file? There's dozens of software packages that use that extension. Even Word uses that same extension for multiple different formats. But I've never objected to this proposal per se; the reason this bug is not yet fixed is described in comment 5 and comment 6. The feature hasn't been widely implemented in the first place, it doesn't make sense to extend it already, when it's not clear it's even a valid feature (we don't have significant implementation experience with the MIME type version of this). CSV files are in fact a good example, regardless of whether the author uses text/csv or .csv: if a user goes to a Web site and downloads a CSV file, it has as good a chance of having the .txt or even .html extension, or indeed .php or .cgi, as it does .csv. Why would it help the user to set a type or an extension? -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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