On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Alexey Shuvaev wrote: > Yes, and http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/ knows > about application/fits > As I have mentioned it is not so important but if we are at FITS mime > types it may be reasonable to add this type (application/fits) too. > See attached patch. > It is an old patch against 1.401 of freedesktop.org.xml.in so hunks > about image/fits should be almost completely removed. > Here I tried to add application/fits and make image/fits subclass of it. > The problem is how to differentiate between them (they have identical > signatures). > In a nutshell, each FITS file starts with the following 3 lines: > SIMPLE = T > BITPIX = 8 > NAXIS = 3 > > Actually these are not 'classical lines' (no newline at the end) but > 80-bytes keyword-value entries padded with spaces :) > BITPIX may have other values (16, 32, 64, -32, -64 IIRC). > The difference between application/fits and image/fits (in its simplest case) > is that image is allowed to have NAXIS = [1,2,3] while application has > no restrictions. So if some guru here can code this into > freedesktop.org.xml.in, that would be nice.
If you haven't done so yet, the best way to get this to happen is to * provide small test files for both mimetypes * file a bug report on the freedesktop.org bug tracker (with the files and the patch, ideally). -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, sponsored by Qt Software @ Nokia to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org). _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg