Re: Open systems / Freedom ( was RE: The Web as an Application)

On 24/09/2013 17:42, Rushforth, Peter wrote:
> What's astonishing is how many XML vocabularies rely only on
> application/xml on the web.

Why is that surprising at all?

If you have a a vocabulary served as application/xml it can in many
cases just automatically do the right thing, especially if coupled with
an in-document processing instruction such as xml-stylesheet.

If you invent a new xml vocabuary and give it a new mime type, there are
typically few advantages and a massive disadvantage that the default
behaviour for every application is to drop it on the floor as an unknown
mimetype.

We (finally in MathML3, after 15 years of MathML) got round to
registering a mime type for MathML, because some people would find it
useful, but it is of very limited use on the web (most convincing use
case for it is labelling clipboard formats on some operating systems)

David

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