Re: Markdown MIME type?
On 7 Feb 2008, at 00:53, Thomas Nichols wrote: [...] Of course, this argument is moot if there's no interest in having browsers handle markdown intelligently [...] Browsers are not the only applications using mime-types, and I do see other mime-type-using applications benefit from a Markdown mime-type. ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
Re: Markdown MIME type?
On Feb 3, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: Regrettably, there still isn’t one registered for Markdown. If my reading of [RFC 4288] is correct, John shouldn’t have any trouble registering eg. `text/vnd.daringfireball.markdown` using the application form at http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/mediatypes.pl. (Most of the “mandatory” fields in that form apply only to MIME types registered in the standards tree, not the vendor tree.) I'm willing to do this, but I don't think I'm familiar enough with the associated RFCs to fill out the form accurately. Here's the thing, though: (a) To my eyes, text/x-markdown looks a lot better than text/vnd.daringfireball.markdown; and (b) I don't have to do a damn thing for text/x-markdown. What exactly would be the practical benefits over just using text/x- markdown? -J.G. ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
Re: Markdown MIME type?
* Thomas Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-04 14:10]: When this came up on the list before I think there was a consensus that `text/x-markdown` is usable -- possibly with a URI to identify the Markdown syntax used. Did I understand that correctly? Yes, you did. Using a type with a subtype starting with `x-` is permissible, and in absence of a registered MIME type, the only thing that third parties can do. Note [RFC 4288, section 3.4][1], though: However, with the simplified registration procedures described above for vendor and personal trees, it should rarely, if ever, be necessary to use unregistered experimental types. Therefore, use of both x- and x. forms is discouraged. [1]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4288#section-3.4 Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/ ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
Re: Markdown MIME type?
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote on 2008/02/04 13:44: * Thomas Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-04 14:10]: When this came up on the list before I think there was a consensus that `text/x-markdown` is usable -- possibly with a URI to identify the Markdown syntax used. Did I understand that correctly? Yes, you did. Using a type with a subtype starting with `x-` is permissible, and in absence of a registered MIME type, the only thing that third parties can do. Note [RFCÂ 4288, section 3.4][1], though: However, with the simplified registration procedures described above for vendor and personal trees, it should rarely, if ever, be necessary to use unregistered experimental types. Therefore, use of both x- and x. forms is discouraged. [1]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4288#section-3.4 Regards, Yup, I remembered that -- their definition of simplified may differ from mine ;-) This from Sam Angove is informative: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2007-June/000646.html Andrea Censi confirmed that [Maruku documents could be identified by profiles][] and use: text/x-markdown; profile=http://maruku.org/syntax/#ver; though there was some ensuing discussion about the legitimacy of fragment identifiers for this purpose (or at least of parsing them, instead of considering the URIs to be opaque). If we could reach consensus about mime-type / profile, we could perhaps submit them to Mozilla/Opera as recognised types to be rendered as text/plain if no helper is installed? [Maruku documents could be identified by profiles]: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2007-June/000661.html -- Thomas. ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
Re: Markdown MIME type?
* Petite Abeille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-03 17:55]: What MIME type do people use for Markdown? Regrettably, there still isn’t one registered for Markdown. If my reading of [RFC 4288] is correct, John shouldn’t have any trouble registering eg. `text/vnd.daringfireball.markdown` using the application form at http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/mediatypes.pl. (Most of the “mandatory” fields in that form apply only to MIME types registered in the standards tree, not the vendor tree.) Hint hint, nudge nudge. [RFC 4288]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4288 text/markdown? text/plain? Suggestions? I end up using `text/plain` most of the time because browsers throw up a download box whenever they encounter an unknown MIME type, even though [RFC 2046] explicitly says they should treat any unknown `text/*` MIME type as `text/plain`. [RFC 2046]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046 Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/ ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
