- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:36:27 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: public-html WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Dec 11, 2009, at 3:21 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > Ignoring the <embed> for a moment... The <object> tags looks good to me, the type is not declared, and the HTTP response has > > Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash > > (speaking of which: is there an IANA-registered media type for this?) No. Adobe/Macromedia, Microsoft, and Sun usually fail to register media types before deployment, though parts of MS has been improving in that regard. They can't even get the simple part right about NOT using a name that begins with "x-" because such names are supposed to be local-only and not exposed to the Internet. The "x-" prefix is the single most brain damaged tradition of the IETF, and it can't seem to fix itself. All of the original Web media types got it wrong as well -- moving from text/x-html to text/html was a major pain in the ass. At this point we should just add the common x-types to the registry because none of the major vendors will switch to a different type after the original is deployed. ....Roy
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