- From: Hallvord R. M. Steen <hallvord@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:25:01 +0100
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, "Paul Libbrecht" <paul@hoplahup.net>
- Cc: "Ryosuke Niwa" <rniwa@webkit.org>, public-webapps@w3.org
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:47:08 +0100, Paul Libbrecht <paul@hoplahup.net> wrote: >>> WHEN I registered a media-type on the ietf list I have been quite much >>> hit as the first comment "one says media-type >>> nowadays". Well, on one hand it's probably polite and correct to let the group that defines a piece of the puzzle decide a name. On the other hand, I find their wish to "rebrand" a long-established vocabulary and concept strange. I wonder if they ever considered that at some point, a word stops being a Technology as defined by a specific subset of people and becomes simply Language, defined by its users collectively. By now, "MIME type" is a part of our language.. >> Media type is ambiguous with CSS. > > Why? Just because CSS also defines and uses "media type". Luckily, the human mind does some namespace processing which is subconscious and really efficient.. ;-) -- Hallvord R. M. Steen, Core Tester, Opera Software http://www.opera.com http://my.opera.com/hallvors/
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