hi I can try contacting duxbury, but in my experience they're very ... windows centric. I'd probably mention in my email that I want to improve the "linux desktop" and at that point they'd lose all interest. But I'll try anyway, I won't go off of assumption on this one. At least the brf format is open, and has a dtd. Duxbury was, I thought, a very proprietary company. I'm trying to find out if the brf format is registered. I can't seem to find it, so I'm assuming not. Would the mime type be something like text/braille? Thanks Kendell Clark
[email protected] wrote: > Le Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:25:42AM +0200, Bastien Nocera a écrit : >> Charles is wrong, you don't need to have them registered. In fact, the >> "x-" prefix says it's not registered. > Hi Bastien, > > I wrote "can be registered to the IANA", not "need to". I am sorry > if it has been confusing. > > Registering to the IANA is a nice thing to do as it will benefit a broader > audience than the users of XDG-compliant desktop environment. And indeed, as > you wrote, this registration is often done by the creators of the file type. > In the case of the "BRF" format, it seems to be "Duxbury systems". > > http://www.duxburysystems.com/documentation/dbt11.1/brf_files.htm > > Perhaps they would be pleased to do the registration if they were contacted by > Kendell ? > > The IANA has recently became much more opened to registration of new types, > to the point that they now discourage the use of "x-" prefixes. > > - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6838#section-3.4 > - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648 > > I tested the new registration system myself, with > application/vnd.debian.binary-package, and this media type made its way in > shared-mime-info shortly after acceptance (thanks to the maintainer of > Fedora's > package "mailcap", who was faster than me to submit an update to you). So in > case submission to the IANA seems to be doable, I think that it is the most > beneficial way to go. > > Have a nice day, > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
