Revisiting mime-types and file extensions

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2007-06-14 à 22:45, Sam Angove a écrit :


> `text/x-markdown` seems a reasonable media-type to encompass the whole

> murky, underspecified lot of them. Specific extensions/implementations

> could be indicated with an optional parameter, like:

>

>    text/x-markdown;

> profile="http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/"


That seems complicated to me. Specifically, what happens if I change  
the page URL to PHP Markdown Extra some day? Why not one of these  
instead:

     text/x-markdown.extra
     text/x-markdown+extra

?


Michel Fortin
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