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

Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu> Wed, 09 July 2014 19:02 UTC

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On 2014-07-09, 20:53 , Dave Crocker wrote:
> The way this thread has progressed suggests to me that the spec is
> better as a single, specific media type, with no variant option.

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.

cheers,

dret.

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