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
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
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
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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