Re: [ietf-types] Update to text/html registration

["Michael[tm] Smith" <[e-mail]>]

Paul Libbrecht <[e-mail]>, 2012-08-07 15:14 +0200:

> Michael,
> 
> HTML is very commonly exchanged over clipboards in widespread operating systems.
> Could I suggest that you enrich the registrations of html and xhtml so that you include two fields with
> - Windows Clipboard Flavor Name
> - Macintosh Uniform Type Identifier

Are those important just for HTML and XHTML, or are there other formats
which would benefit from having those defined as part of their
registrations?

If those would be useful or other formats, I'd suggest the guidelines for
media-type registrations be updated to suggest including them for all
registrations.

> This way platforms, which mostly already define these types, would do so
> based on an open standard.
> 
> I can try to research the possible values if you want.  I am not sure
> about the multipart media type but I suspect this would also be welcome
> (maybe for html with attached objects?).

The details for this registration are defined in the HTML5 spec, so I
suggest that if you want to make sure that data for those suggested fields
is included, it would be best to file a bug against the HTML5 spec itself:

  http://w3.org/brief/MjA2

-- 
Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike