- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:12:21 +0200
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On 29/08/2013 15:37 , Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 8/29/13 9:32 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> Doing a mixture of sniffing and labeling has not served us very well. >> We cannot rely solely on sniffing because of CSS and SVG. We can rely >> solely on a standardized mapping table of extension to Content-Type. > > Ah, ok, the extension table is standardized, not gotten from the OS? OK, > that works. And shockingly enough, that's been done before: http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/#rule-for-identifying-the-media-type-of-a-file-0 There could be a few things worth pilfering from that document in general. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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