* Larry Masinter wrote:
>This is important, because the difficulties experienced with
>MIME type assignment are mainly ones of configuration, not
>software capability. There were some earlier versions of Apache
>that would serve unknown file extensions as text/plain instead
>of application/octet-s
Larry Masinter wrote:
First, it usually isn't "authors" who personally assign MIME types
to anything.
Indeed. That's one saving grace, since we want more authors creating
web content than there are people who even know what a MIME type is.
MIME types are generally assigned by the HTTP ser
I disagree with the assertion that, for HTTP, "by and large
the whole thing doesn't work very well)".
First, it usually isn't "authors" who personally assign MIME types
to anything. Content is written by software applications, usually,
and software applications generally are set to at least gene
Larry Masinter wrote:
I'm not sure about 'authoring might be more complicated',
though. The author/sender/creator of a package has a lot more
insight about the types of the components of the package
than the recipient, and if there's any guesswork to be
done, putting the burden on the author wou
MIME multipart made an explicit decision to require explicit
content-type rather than rely on file extensions. Other
serializations might have some default inference mechanism,
some way to extend the inference mechanism (e.g., by file
extension, as is necessary with ftp:), explicitly define a
c
Larry Masinter wrote:
Yes, using Zip is a different overall serialization than
MIME multipart, but aren't the problem spaces similar enough
that differences from what is already widespread practice?
MIME multipart would have the side benefit of specifying MIME types. At
the same time, autho
I'm not sure how "tag:" adds any benefits over "cid:"
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2392
as specified in MHTML
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2557
especially given the wide deployment and use of cid: within
MHTML for this purpose.
Yes, using Zip is a different overall serialization than
MIME
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote:
>> Yes, I too am interested in the timeline for the Origin spec at the IETF.
>
> I'm in the process of writing version 00. I'd imagine I'll upload
> version 00 in the next few days.
I've
Below is the draft agenda for the January 22 Widgets Voice Conference
(VC).
Inputs and discussion on the agenda topics before the meeting is
encouraged.
Logistics:
Time: 24:00 Tokyo; 17:00 Helsinki; 16:00 Paris; 15:00 London;
10:00 Boston; 07:00 Seattle
Duration = 60 minutes
Zak
Hi Benoit,
Inline comments below. For the sake of the LC disposition of comments,
please be sure to indicate if you are satisfied with the changes I have
made
On 1/20/09 8:50 PM, "SUZANNE Benoit RD-SIRP-ISS"
wrote:
> Hello All,
> Here are some comments on the Jan 17th draft:
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