On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:47:08 +0100, Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net>
wrote:
WHEN I registered a media-type on the ietf list I have been quite much
hit as the first comment "one says media-type
nowadays".
Well, on one hand it's probably polite and correct to let the group that
defines a piece of the puzzle decide a name. On the other hand, I find
their wish to "rebrand" a long-established vocabulary and concept strange.
I wonder if they ever considered that at some point, a word stops being a
Technology as defined by a specific subset of people and becomes simply
Language, defined by its users collectively. By now, "MIME type" is a part
of our language..
Media type is ambiguous with CSS.
Why?
Just because CSS also defines and uses "media type". Luckily, the human
mind does some namespace processing which is subconscious and really
efficient.. ;-)
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