true, but there's also something to be said for precedent.
On 11/14/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chesty Puller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:23 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Office 2007 sucks for many reasons > > > > Office Open XML is a new specification which MS is pushing to become a > > standard for all office-type documents. Naturally it's the mime type > > with a > > modifier describing the exact document type. > > Yeah... I wasn't going to say anything, but there is a bit of "you get what > you plan for" in here. > > The definition for MIME type names is published here: > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4288#section-4.2.1 > > In short a legal, registered MIME type name is up to 255 characters (two > names of up to 127 characters and the delimiter). > > Basically you said "50 chars should be enough since you hadn't seen any that > were longer". You looked at some examples and then picked a number "big > enough". It's a classic "sufficiently large arbitrary guess" problem - and > they ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS end up biting you in the ass. > > (And we ALL have nasty ass-scars from things like this... just last month I > fixed a problem in a three-year-old system because I was storing "JavaScript > Version" in three characters and then some browser started reporting as > "1.5b1".) > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246461 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
