- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:43:15 +0000 (UTC)
- To: David Lieberman AWDSF <david@awdsf.com>
- Cc: 'James Cerra' <jfcst24_public@yahoo.com>, www-html@w3.org, 'Lachlan Hunt' <lachlan.hunt@iinet.net.au>, trejkaz@xaoza.net
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, David Lieberman AWDSF wrote: > > I was under the impression that 'type-mixing' in MIME types is a not a > good idea because it mixes up two separate concepts: basic data types, > and processing guidelines that you use with the type. > > Is my thinking outdated here? I haven't taught this sort of thing in a > while. In general, you're supposed to use the appropriate MIME type (where "appropriate" mostly means "intended to be used with the namespace that the root element has), so for an XHTML document (even if it contains fragments of SVG and MathML) you should use application/xhtml+xml, and for an SVG image (even if it contains fragments of XHTML or XForms) you would use image/svg+xml. But at the UA level, they should all be handled the same way, with dispatching being done via namespaces. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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