On 23/08/2006, at 8:12 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
Thus I don't think it is necessary for us to define a MIME type
beyond the
generic application/xml. XBL will be found in XML sent with all
kinds of
MIME types.
I agree with your points.
However, I still think it is worth defining a MIME type for (at
least) the following reasons:
- it's a fairly small amount of effort (possibly with the exception
of the security section, but you already have to write that for the
spec in general)
- it *might* be nice for applications that want to do something
special when coming across content that is marked as XBL. For
example, a hypothetical browser may display XBL files in an
interesting way or have some super cool editing mode. If we only use
application/xml then it would have to sniff.
(Yeah, I know you think Content-Type is dead)
Dean
