- From: Chris Wilson (PSD) <cwilso@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 10:39:49 -0700
- To: "'mseaton@pobox.com'" <mseaton@pobox.com>, "'Hakon Lie'" <howcome@w3.org>
- Cc: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
text is also to be used for content types where the user agent might be able to discern some information by degrading to "text/plain" - which is marginally true in the case of CSS. :^) -Chris Chris Wilson cwilso@microsoft.com -[- >---------- >From: Hakon Lie[SMTP:howcome@w3.org] >Sent: Saturday, June 08, 1996 3:46 PM >To: mseaton@pobox.com >Cc: www-style@w3.org >Subject: text/css? > >Michael Seaton writes: > > > I'm puzzled that CSS's media type was registered under TEXT rather > > than APPLICATION. Apart from the descriptive labels in !legal > > declarations, CSS does not really have any textual content to > > speak of. Does TEXT simply denote a human-readable media type? > >Text was chosen for two reasons: > >1) Since CSS can be embedded in HTML, we thought it best to use the > same main type as HTML. > >2) 'text' is shorter and easier than 'applictaion'. And easier to > write :-) > >Regards, > >-h&kon > >Hakon W Lie, W3C/INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France >http://www.w3.org/people/howcome howcome@w3.org > >
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