On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 02:14 -0500, kendell clark wrote: > hi > I've bookmarked the iana registration application. But I'm going to need > some help filling this out, because some of the details they want are so > far over my head I don't understand them. Would someone be willing to > either fill an application out for me or explain it a bit better?
There's no need to register the document type with the IANA to have it accepted in shared-mime-info. This is usually only something that the creator of the file type does anyway. > For > braille documents, there is no standard. It's simply a plain text file, > but instead of ascii text, it's braille text, which is basically ascii > that, when run through a braille translator, turns into print text. It > should be a subclass of text/plain, since it is basically a text file. How does one detect those filetypes given only the data? What does one look like? That's the question. <snip> > If I understand > correctly, the way to get new media types is to first register them with > iana, then they'll get added hear? If this is the case, why aren't the > console rom formats registered? Application/x-wii-rom, etc? Charles is wrong, you don't need to have them registered. In fact, the "x-" prefix says it's not registered. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
