Re: Sketch of an idea to address widget/package addressing with fragID syntax and media-type defn.

Marcos, Stuart,

On Dec 1, 2008, at 5:29 AM, ext Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)  
wrote:
>> From: Marcos Caceres [mailto:marcosscaceres@gmail.com]
>>
>> Unfortunately, widgets/zip do not maintain media-type information.
>> That information is derived from content-type sniffing heuristics as
>> defined in HTML5 [1].
>
> Well there are ways around that, add a package description or meta- 
> data file either at the root of the package or at each directory  
> level and have it carry media-type information - or use 'magic  
> numbers' or (if you really must - in the absense of other  
> authoritative information), sniff/guess though I think that should  
> be the least preferred option.
>
> Anyway - that zip files don't intrinically maintain such info is  
> not a show stopper - though I would have thought that carrying  
> media-type information is a natural requirement for a packaging  
> format for the web.

It seems like adding such a meta-data file would increase the  
complexity of authoring and implemenation and thus be contrary to at  
least our "Ease of use" design goal [1].

-Regards, Art Barstow

[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-reqs/#design>

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