- From: Dan Kohn <dan@dankohn.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:38:32 -0700
- To: "Etan Wexler" <ewexler@stickdog.com>, "Mikko Rantalainen" <mira@cc.jyu.fi>, <www-html@w3.org>, <ietf-types@alvestrand.no>
>> As I have some programming background I think
>> application/xhtml|xml would have been much better and the pipe was
>> available in addition to the plus sign.
For historical curiosity, I'll mention that as a co-author of RFC 3023,
I was in favor of using the pipe | (e.g., application/xhtml|xml, which
was used in an earlier draft), but I was convinced by my co-authors that
it could be too easily confused with capital I and lowercase l in many
fonts.
I suspect it didn't really matter, and the delimiter is in any event now
firmly established as +.
- dan
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