Re: [www-svg] <none>

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 18:33, Jim Ley wrote:
> 
> "Braden McDaniel" <braden@lnk.com>
> > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 08:40, Jim Ley wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > > JL> whatever objections may be found to image/svg+xml .
> > > >
> > > > Such as?
> > >
> > > I've not seen a draft... I have reservations about it being in the
> image
> > > space at all, it seems to fit better in application/*  (are there not
> > > risks with non svg aware agents consider image/svg+xml to be binary
> data
> > > for example?)
> >
> > I don't think it's reasonable to assume "image" means the representation
> > isn't textual. The registry already seems to be populated with some that
> > are.
> 
> I agree, however RFC 2046 doesn't, 4.2
> 
>    Unrecognized subtypes of "image" should at a miniumum be treated as
>    "application/octet-stream".

How is that disagreement? "application/octet-stream" is a catch-all. Per
HTTP, *anything* that cannot be recognized by the usual (or unusual)
means should be treated as "application/octet-stream".

Braden

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