- From: Allan Beaufour <beaufour@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:38:22 +0100
- To: www-forms@w3.org
On 3/21/06, Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net> wrote: > > I was wondering if XForms had a Content-Type associated to it > > such as application/xforms+xml. I have not seen any on the > > IANA website nor anywhere else. Please forgive me if I > > haven't looked carefully enough. > > As Victor said earlier, it doesn't have such a type. What we need is > actually some kind of 'sub-type' mechanism that lets us know that the > browser has a plug-in installed--there are a number of suggestions on how to > solve this, but nothing has been firmed up yet. Yeah, we've also discussed it for some time. Adding a user-agent identifier is not really "the right thing" to do, because you need to know what combination of languages that the client supports, i.e. XForms+XHTML, XForms+SVG, XForms+XHTML+SVG, etc. etc... This is a task for the CDF working group (the Firefox bug for it is here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279729) -- ... Allan
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