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Re: [apps-discuss] font/*

Eric Burger <eburger@standardstrack.com> Tue, 08 November 2011 14:15 UTC

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Agreed.

On Nov 8, 2011, at 3:27 AM, 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?
> 
> #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
>> 
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