Am Montag, den 31.03.2008, 08:10 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille: > I recently learned that file has obviosely no means for detecting biological > data formats. Three months ago we had some discussions about Applied > Biosystems chromatograms[1]. This thread more or less had ended with: We > are waiting for an answer of the authors. > > Now I wonder whether we could assemble general mime information for > several biological data formats to enable applications to detect whether > files have the format they should have. I think this would be of great > profit for many applications to be able to easily verify that the input > format fits the format the applications wants to work with.
As long as there is no agreement with upstream, you can use the a) x- prefix approach b) vnd. vendor approach Both are described in the MIME specification (IIRC i mentioned the RFC in the discussion). I would suggest the latter for the application/* top type as long as there is no agreement with upstream. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
