Marcos, Stuart,
On Dec 1, 2008, at 5:29 AM, ext Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)
wrote:
From: Marcos Caceres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
