Re: Markdown Content-Type

On 20 November 2012 15:40, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 November 2012 18:30, Ryan Freebern <rfreebern@unionstmedia.com> wrote:
>> "text/x-markdown" indicates that the content-type is experimental. Since our
>> goal is to eventually formalize markdown as a standard, it doesn't make
>> sense for our endorsed content-type (if any) to be experimental. However,
>> RFC4288 says that content-types in the standards tree "MUST correspond to a
>> formal publication by a recognized standards body", so until the markdown
>> standard is much more mature we can't expect a text/markdown (or similar)
>> content-type to be accepted by the IESG.
>
> 1. Isn't that an issue for a server, i.e. not for a MD document?
> the only impact on this group is if we wish to add something to indicate
> the content-type. With the discussions to date, that is a 'later' issue, once
> we have defined a baseline.
> I have added to the collated issues list.

Maybe I'm a bit confused, but that media type isn't the same as MIME
type? Like for example nautilus "identify" as markdown and there "open
with".

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