Re: [widgets] Content-type sniffing and file extension to MIME mapping from Marcos Caceres on 2009-03-09 (public-webapps@w3.org from January to March 2009)

From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:04:57 +0100
To: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
CC: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
Message-ID: <49B4E9C9.1080001@opera.com>

On 3/9/09 11:00 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2009, at 15:29, Marcos Caceres wrote:
>
>>> 2. The XHTML mapping should also appear in the file identification table
>>> [2].
>>
>> What version of XHTML should I be pointing to? 1.0 or 1.1?
>
>
> Does it need to say anything more than that .xhtml maps to
> application/xhtml+xml? The media type is defined by RFC 3236. As
> implemented, the media type isn't restricted to a particular point
> version of XHTML and browsers don't implement 1.1.
>
> (In fact, the media types in the table aren't defined by the specs in
> the "Defined by" column in general, but are defined by RFCs.)
>

Argh, good point. I'll fix that.

Received on Monday, 9 March 2009 10:05:38 UTC