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Re: [apps-discuss] New I-D: text/markdown Media Type - draft-seantek-text-markdown-media-type-00

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Wed, 09 July 2014 19:06 UTC

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On 7/9/2014 12:01 PM, Erik Wilde wrote:
> 
> adding a profile parameter for those variants that are truly, properly,
> extensions and could still be interpreted as the vanilla media type
> wouldn't hurt, would it? it would make it easier for well-behaving
> extensions to actually be treated as proper extensions, instead of being
> something entirely different.


Adding an option that has no immediate, obvious, significant utility
causes folks to think they've got a feature that they don't really have,
because it won't really be tested adequately during development and
deployment.

d/

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Dave Crocker
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