On Jul 4, 2007, at 20:39 , Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 14:18 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: >> BTW We now have an official registered mime type "vnd.olpc-sugar" >> which >> specifies "XO" as the magic key to identify the mime type. At some >> point the PK in the zip header will change to XO. > > Hmm, I was thinking about doing something similar to what OpenDocument > does by storing a mimetype file uncompressed on the root of the > archive. > > In this way we can sniff the mime type while retaining full > compatibility with zip files. Also, we can sniff for different > kinds of > bundles, if we reserve vnd.olpc-sugar for activity bundles.
I like that much better than obscuring the nature of a bundle by patching magic bytes. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
