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Re: [apps-discuss] font/*

"Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Wed, 09 November 2011 01:13 UTC

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On 2011/11/09 7:53, Barry Leiba wrote:
>> It's not clear to me what purpose would be served that cannot be handled
>> perfectly adequately by application/*
>
> This was my first thought as well.
>
> But then I thought again, and I said, "Gee: that's always true.  If we
> always think that, then wouldn't *everything* just be
> 'application/<something>'?  And then what would the point of top-level
> types be in the first place?"
>
> We have the precedent, as it's set up in the first place, to say,
> "This is text," and "This is audio," and "This is an image," and "This
> is video."  It seems to me that, "This is a font definition," is as
> much a statement of a distinct media type as the others are.

Very well put!

Regards,   Martin.

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