- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:45:35 -0400
- To: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Cc: MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, ietf-types@iana.org, ietf-xml-mime@imc.org, public-qt-comments@w3.org
Liam Quin scripsit:
> Interchange of a database query language over the Web in its own
> Internet Type is likely for machine execution or to interchange
> files, not for reading by humans, as then text/plain might be
> more appropriate... but this is conjecture on my part right now.
FWIW, I think this is a Bad Thing. Programming language content should
go in text/plain files (despite the nasty problem with the encoding
type imposed by text/*), so as to *discourage* browsers from attempting
to execute them, which is a big fat security hole.
The use of text/css in HTML link elements and XML stylesheet PIs is
essentially a hack so that browsers can decide whether to fetch the
stylesheet, and is not consistent with the intention of IETF media
types, which are designed to specify a minimal mapping from raw
octets to interpretable objects such as characters or pixels.
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Received on Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:46:18 UTC