[issue22589] mimetypes uses image/x-ms-bmp as the type for bmp files
Jonathan Watt <jw...@jwatt.org> added the comment: I'm unfamiliar with the Python contribution procedures. If it's simply a case of cloning from github.com and putting up a PR then I can do that. I'm overloaded currently though, so if it's more involved than that it may take me a while to figure things out. -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue22589> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22589] mimetypes uses image/x-ms-bmp as the type for bmp files
Jonathan Watt <jw...@jwatt.org> added the comment: > If image/bmp is now[*] the official IANA type You can find image/bmp here: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#image -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue22589> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22589] mimetypes uses image/x-ms-bmp as the type for bmp files
Jonathan Watt <jw...@jwatt.org> added the comment: I should note that while Chrome will refuse to open an image/x-ms-bmp file directly, when loaded as an image embedded in a document (e.g. via HTML's ) then Chrome doesn't care what MIME type it has. It will sniff the image stream and detect from its contents that it is a BMP image and correctly render it. -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue22589> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22589] mimetypes uses image/x-ms-bmp as the type for bmp files
Jonathan Watt <jw...@jwatt.org> added the comment: Using image/x-ms-bmp because that's all that IE7 supports makes no sense. Chrome doesn't support image/x-ms-bmp (it only supports the official IANA type image/bmp), so if the concern is over browser support then it's clear that Chrome (the browser with the most market share) should trump IE7 (a browser that stopped getting support/security updates at the beginning of 2016, and has virtually no browser share). -- nosy: +jwatt ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue22589> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
