On Aug 23, 2006, at 23:34, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Aug 23, 2006, at 21:32, Mark Nottingham wrote:
Media types tend to be used for purposes that you aren't planning
for right now...
Surely in order to reap any useful network effects from an
installed base the MIME type needs to be widely deployed. New MIME
types are hard for average authors to deploy (because usually the
author is not in charge of the server config). Moreover, if there
are no immediate must-have benefits today, there's no incentive for
people out there to deploy a new MIME type.
Registered media types with corresponding file extensions tend to
make it into Apache (and other servers) pretty fast. Since people do
tend to upgrade those, new types tend to actually spread a lot faster
than many expect.
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Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
