Just for reference towards discussion, here a quote from the RFC: ".4. The Application Content-Type
The "application" Content-Type is to be used for data which do not fit in any of the other categories, and particularly for data to be processed by mail-based uses of application programs. This is information which must be processed by an application before it is viewable or usable to a user. " http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1521.html Thats why i chose "text/x-json" over "application/x-json". It is readable text, after all Kjell On 1/20/07, Kjell Bublitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Peter > > None of theme are approved, but according to the RFC, the text-tree is > closest one when it comes down to properly describing the content. You > put everything into "application" that is too specific or "does not > fit into any of the other categories" > > Kjell > > On 1/20/07, Peter Michaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 1/19/07, Kjell Bublitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > While looking thru the brand new documentation i found myself > > > stumbling upon the X-JSON header "again" as being suggested for > > > automatic json evaluation within prototype. > > > > > > I must say that this approach is bad. We should evaluate on content > > > type. It is simple to add and i wonder why no one else did it already. > > > > > > The content-type "text/x-json" is the closest acceptable description > > > according to the RFCs and should be used by prototype to determine if > > > evaluation is in order. Just like text/javascript, which is > > > implemented already. > > > > Why "text/x-json" and not "application/json" which is the approved > > JSON mime-type? > > > > Peter > > -- > > JavaScript for Rails: http://forkjavascript.org > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Kjell > -- www.m3nt0r.de > -- Kjell -- www.m3nt0r.de --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
