On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 11:58 +0000, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > Are they valid PNGs?
They're not. > If so, it sounds like the mime type should just be a child of > image/png and drop the glob here. > > J. Leclanche > > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> > wrote: > I've just had a bug reported against PyXDG that a Mimetype > test is returning image/x-apple-ios-png instead of image/png. > > > Looking at the XML mime type definitions [0], this new mime > type ('Apple broken PNGs') has the same glob as regular pngs: > *.png. They can be distinguished by magic sniffing, but the > test in question is specifically for when only a filename is > available. > > > Obviously, a filename like foo.png should be presumed to be > image/png over image/x-apple-ios-png. But how should this be > done? Should we prefer mimetypes without the x- prefix? Could > there be a collision between two mimetypes neither of which > have an x-? Is there some other heuristic we can use? > > [0] > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/commit/freedesktop.org.xml.in?id=afbdfb40a3ff8c255e5d3dab8840cc478a007d45 > > > Thanks, > Thomas > > > > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > > > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
