- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:10:23 +0100
- To: timeless@gmail.com
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:02 PM, timeless <timeless@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2008/9/22 Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>: >> Ok. I see your point. However, I'm not sure what I can do as vendors >> won't budge on this issue for now. At the moment, ZIP serves the >> purpose for widgets. But as they become more popular, the limitations >> with Zip will quickly be exposed. Zip will either have to become more >> like MIME or we will have to migrate over to MIME... we will seriously >> need to watch the evolution of Widgets and the market in regards to >> this. > > note that BeOS w/ its BeFS used mime types for files and it supported > stashing mime types into zip files, I don't remember how, but I'm > fairly certain it did it. > There is lots of ways of putting the mimetype into a zip file. For example, one could use the comment block, or do what OCF does (include a file called MIMETYPE as the first file). -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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