- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:46:08 -0700
- To: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Cc: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, ietf-types@iana.org, public-tt@w3.org
For Mac OS 9 the file type was very important. I suppose there may be people still running OS 9, but I really doubt they'll be at the avant-garde of handling TTML files :-) On Aug 26, 2010, at 18:14 , Philippe Le Hegaret wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:44 -0700, David Singer wrote: >> I would leave the Mac file type code blank, myself. Or make it a text document (which it is). We no longer register these, afaik, so... > > Hi David, > > as far as I know, RFC 4288 indicates: > [[ > 4.11. Additional Information > > Various sorts of optional information SHOULD be included in the > specification of a media type if it is available: > [...] > o File name extension(s) commonly used on one or more platforms to > indicate that some file contains a given media type. > > o Mac OS File Type code(s) (4 octets) used to label files containing > a given media type. > ]] > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4288.txt > > So, I don't mind one way or another, but it seems to me RFC 4288 needs > to be updated if we're going to drop the usage. > > Philippe > > > David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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