- From: Saašha Metsärantala <saasha@acc.umu.se>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:44:55 +0100 (CET)
- To: xml-editor@w3.org
Hello! According to http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-guessing-with-ext-info both text/xml and application/xml can be used to send XML files. In the case of XHTML, SVG and MathML, application/xhtml+xml (etc.) is often recommended. This works fine if those files are fetched with a web browser and their contents are aimed to be made immediately available to the user through the user agent. But what if the aim of providing these files is to prompt the user with a »save as» dialog box? What about using MIME types such as application/octet-stream or application/x-download (or others) in such cases? Or should the dialog box be triggered by something else than a MIME type? The information provided at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt is maybe not really up-to-date and I consider that it doesn't answer these questions properly. I consider that an appropriate recommendation to web authors would be welcome. Regards! Saašha,
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