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

registered mime types are important to the web.
working parsers for registered mimetypes are even more important.

the advantage that the XML family has is that it is relativity easy to
design and ship your own custom parser (XSLT) with each and every snowflake
message design you care to invent.

as long as you only want to speak in XML, all is fine. start using plain
text-based formats, JSON-based messages, videos, and other binary messages
and suddenly shipping your parser with the message gets a lot harder.

this is all old news.


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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:13 PM, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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