Re: [apps-discuss] font/*

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

On Nov 9, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> On 2011-11-08 09:27, Graham Klyne wrote:
>> 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?
>> ...
> 
> In HTTP:
> 
> 	Accept: font/*
> 
> (not sure whether it would be useful, but at least that's one thing you need a top level type for...)


The genesis for the current thread, I thought, was the websec WG's work on font-sniffing. "What might I do different" would be "do security checks", I believe. Folks who are more active on websec can answer this better.

--Paul Hoffman