[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> | I would like to introduce it for my music-friends, which raises this question:
> | They are (mostly) Windows-users, and know generally far more about music
> | than about computers.
> | If you click the "M" link, you get a reference to af file with extension
> | .midi, which most standard Windows-setup won't recognize. (Windows
> | normally recognize filetype .mid)
> | One solution would be to teach all Windows-users how to make Windows
> | recognize .midi as a midi-file -
> | My question is: Would it be possible for you to simply return a .mid file
> | (maybe if the user clikced a checkbox claiming, that she is a
> | Windows-user) ????
>
> I doubt this would have any effect at all. You are laboring under the
> misconception that your browser pays attention to the .midi suffix.
> It normally doesn't; it uses the MIME type from the HTTP header to
> determine the file type.
Nevertheless, .mid seems to be the most common suffix for midi files -
and one that all computers seems to recognize. So maybe you should
consider changing it if it's not too much bother.
Frank Nordberg
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