Re: The 'image/svg+xml' Media Type

• From: Braden McDaniel <braden@lnk.com>
• Date: 18 Jun 2002 11:29:41 -0400
• To: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
• Cc: www-svg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <1024414182.8361.16.camel@sphinx>

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 08:40, Jim Ley wrote:

[snip]

> 5.1 Notes on text/ecmascript
> 
>    By the best of the author's knowledge, this Media Type has been
>    introduced by the SVG [SVG10] specifications.  It is beeing used
>    there and defined as the default value for the 'contentScriptType'
>    attribute of the 'svg' element.
> 
> I'd again suggest that it was never the place of an SVG working group to
> invent a mime-type for ECMAScript.

Furthermore, the type simply is wrong-headed. "application/ecmascript"
is appropriate.

Braden

Received on Tuesday, 18 June 2002 11:31:45 UTC