- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:16:54 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Hello www-svg, Tor writes: > The format definition specifies MIME types, but then contradicts that > just a paragraph later "Given that several important file formats are > still not registered..." Making up your own non-IANA/IETF pseudo MIME > types seems ill-advised. Agreed, although its more complex than that. Its not just that there are missing media types (subtypes) - the response there is clearly to register them - its also that there are missing top/level types (eg font/* ) and uses that are not covered by the MIME top level types (like script, and style). XSL, for example, is served as application/xml. It might be easier to see by looking at this part of the spec in 1.2 Full, http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/painting.html#requiredFormats because that has more of the functional specifiers. We are not encouraging use of non-registered types. On the other hand, we were trying to disambiguate cases where the media type by itself is ambiguous (eg some of the application/* types). See for example the font format specifiers in CSS2 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#referencing We are happy to make it clearer that we recommend registering new media types. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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