Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes: > Joseph Turner <jos...@ushin.org> writes: > >>> I think, text/org may be added as well (without removing of >>> text/x-org). >> >> Shall we consider this this after we find a way for these low-preference >> mappings to be useful? > > If you mean "negotiate... to override "applicaion/vnd.lotus-organizer" > with "text/org"", I have no objections. > >>> Perhaps a worg page may be created to clarify current state of media >>> type for org files. The question is what is the appropriate directory. >> >> I agree that it would be good to track this information in one place so >> we don't repeat ourselves ;) > > We can put such a page alongside /org-syntax.org, maybe even linked from > there. Feel free to create such a page.
Would the following patch be appropriate? Thanks! Joseph
>From c898ba723faeb67929f52728c67e2b8858f99738 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joseph Turner <jos...@breatheoutbreathe.in> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 05:55:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] org-media-type.org: New file; Describe state of NodeJS MIME database --- org-media-type.org | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 org-media-type.org diff --git a/org-media-type.org b/org-media-type.org new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f5d69b7c --- /dev/null +++ b/org-media-type.org @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +#+title: Org Media Type +#+author: Joseph Turner +#+options: toc:t ':t author:nil +#+language: en +#+category: worg +#+bind: sentence-end-double-space t +#+html_link_up: index.html +#+html_link_home: https://orgmode.org/worg/ + +#+begin_comment +This file is released by its authors and contributors under the GNU +Free Documentation license v1.3 or later, code examples are released +under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. +#+end_comment + +* Introduction + +This page tracks information about the ~.org~ extension media type. + +Based on [[https://yhetil.org/orgmode/6d94fff4-4d30-4121-bfd1-f267cb5b6...@gmail.com/][this thread on the Org mode mailing list]], the consensus is +that the ~.org~ file extension should map to the ~text/org~ MIME type. + +Until the [[file:org-syntax.org][Org syntax spec]] is complete and a proposal submitted to and +approved by IANA, we can ask downstream MIME libraries to override +~applicaion/vnd.lotus-organizer~ with ~text/org~. + +* Downstream MIME Libraries + +** jshttp/mime-db - NodeJS + +[[https://github.com/jshttp/mime-db][jshttp/mime-db]] is the de facto standard MIME database for NodeJS. +[[https://github.com/jshttp/mime-db/commit/5797174e5434a8d2978d9fdc13ec6a47ba20a02f][This commit]] adds a mapping from ~.org~ to ~text/x-org~, but the two +popular NodeJS utilities for getting a MIME type from a file +extension, [[https://github.com/jshttp/mime-types][jshttp/mime-types]] and [[https://github.com/broofa/mime][broofa/mime]], return +~applicaion/vnd.lotus-organizer~. Both libraries return only the +highest preference media type, and IANA-sourced media types are +preferred over other types. -- 2.41.0
