Hello Scott, You can find more info about Content Types here...
Section 14.17 of RFC 2616 http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.17 See ya On 4/5/07, Scott Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Apr 5, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: > You can do other sophisticated stuff with the "type" attribute to... > since it holds a "Content Type" and not just a "MIME type". So you > can add parameters to it too. The distinction between "content type" and "MIME type" doesn't seem very clear in the HTML spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-content-type The header "Content types (MIME types)" seems to suggest they're interchangeable terms, though they're apparently not as "text/html; charset=UTF-8" is a valid content type, but not a valid MIME type. Does anyone know of a reference where the definition of "content type" is made more clear? Are there any existing standards around sub-parameters of content types? I also wonder whether this is appropriate when the additional human- readable file information is published somewhere other than the link. For example, this is a snippet from a screen-scraping tool I made to provide download links for video files: <div> <div> <img src="http://www.comedycentral.com/images/shows/tds/videos/ wilmore/12044_wilmore_m1.jpg"/> <p>3:32</p> </div> <h1>Frog Princess</h1> <p>Larry Wilmore explains that when you wish upon a star, it makes a difference who you are.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://a1136.c.akamai.net/n/1136/9950/v001/ comedystor.download.akamai.com/9951/_!/com/dailyshow/wilmore/ wilmore_12044_480.flv? __gda__=1175813754_e1a844fd4dfd872bf13b8bc96b430a04">Download Low Quality Flash Video File</a></li> <li><a href="http://a1136.c.akamai.net/n/1136/9950/v001/ comedystor.download.akamai.com/9951/_!/com/dailyshow/wilmore/ wilmore_12044_480.flv? __gda__=1175813224_a83ec303f5e664e4f66c006e4deba362">Download High Quality Flash Video File</a></li> </ul> </div> I publish human-readable file types, bitrates (low vs. high quality), and lengths, so it would be nice to have machine-readable versions of all of that information. I could add type="application/x-shockwave- flash; length: 212; bitrate=128" to the links, and that would seem to make sense for the MIME type and bitrate, which are published in human-readable form within the link. But the length is published outside the link, so it seems a little awkward to be publishing the machine-readable version of that in the link. -- Scott Reynen MakeDataMakeSense.com _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
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