Re: [apps-discuss] font/*

[Graham Klyne <[e-mail]>]

It's not clear to me what purpose would be served that cannot be handled 
perfectly adequately by application/*

My understanding (or impression over the years) was that the top-level MIME type 
was a kind of high-level dispatch indicator to a device capable of rendering or 
otherwise presenting the broad kind of content, with application/* serving for 
types that needed further processing before they might meaningfully be 
considered for presentation

If I receive a font/* file, what might I do with it that is different from any 
other application/* type of file?

#g
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On 07/11/2011 22:49, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> In talking with folks at the W3C meeting last week, I heard yet again of
> interest in defining a Content Type for fonts. Would anyone active in
> the IETF Applications Area want to work on such a spec? And do folks
> here think a new top-level content type is needed for fonts?
>
> Peter
>