On 2009-07-10, at 02:08, Matthew King wrote:
Peter da Silva writes:
Everyone is
moving AWAY from using metadata for anything that will break
functionality if it's lost.
Metadata like the HTTP Content-Type header?
What file system is that supported in, other than BeFS?
It was thus said that the Great Philip Newton once stated:
>
> (Also: it's not for nothing that MSIE does content sniffing for
> certain MIME types [IIRC, including text/plain and
> application/octet-stream], simply because there are/were web servers
> that sent the wrong content type so that MS de
Philip Newton writes:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:08, Matthew King wrote:
>
> > Metadata like the HTTP Content-Type header?
>
> Yes, like that.
>
> You'll note that many web pages -- especially static ones -- still end
> in .htm or .html despite the Content-Type header.
Surely not "despite":
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:08, Matthew King wrote:
> Peter da Silva writes:
>
>> Everyone is
>> moving AWAY from using metadata for anything that will break
>> functionality if it's lost.
>
> Metadata like the HTTP Content-Type header?
Yes, like that.
You'll note that many web pages -- especiall
Peter da Silva writes:
> Everyone is
> moving AWAY from using metadata for anything that will break
> functionality if it's lost.
Metadata like the HTTP Content-Type header?
Matthew
--
I must take issue with the term "a mere child", for it has been my
invariable experience that the company of
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:56:54PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On 2009-07-09, at 06:41, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
>> Surely you can?t do anything serious with a file based solely on its
>> extension, and I guess you?d rather my UI would not have to look at
>> the
>> header just to choose
On 2009-07-09, at 06:41, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
Surely you can’t do anything serious with a file based solely on its
extension, and I guess you’d rather my UI would not have to look at
the
header just to choose an icon for a file, *and* the shell completion
is
so much easier to code
