On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Yoav Weiss <yoav@yoav.ws> wrote: > While I'm not sure mime-types are necessary (they're more verbose than may > be required), this actually allows an author to declare that a certain image > contains several sub-types that may not be supported by the browser. > Let's say for example that JPEG arithmetic coding was supported by some > browsers and JPEG hierarchical coding was supported by others, with some > overlap in their support. > format("image.jpeg", "hierarchical", "arithmetic") would allow an author to > define an image that contains both sub-types, without the need to define all > possible permutations in the spec. > > OTOH, I'm not sure such a scenario is a realistic future scenario, and it > might be easier to extend the syntax in the future, if & when that need > arises. The ability to specify multiple subtypes sounds compelling. ~TJReceived on Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:16:44 UTC
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