Revisiting mime-types and file extensions

[Phil Mocek]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 07:29:46PM -0400, Michel Fortin wrote:

> 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. 


Complicated, maybe.  But does it conform to an established
convention?


> Specifically, what happens if I change the page URL to PHP

> Markdown Extra some day?


You'll create many broken links, causing trouble for everyone
who has ever linked to your page.  Please don't do that.

See [W3C: "Cool URIs don't change"][1].

[1]: <http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI>

-- 
Phil Mocek