Re: [media-types] image/webp rfc review

[Paul Libbrecht <[e-mail]>]

On 5 May 2021, at 3:54, James Zern wrote:
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dataxchg/standard-clipboard-formats 
> would be the list of standard clipboard types. And webP is not inside 
> there.
>
> That is what I found too. It's not clear to me how extensive this is 
> meant to be since these are externally controlled values and not 
> intrinsic to the file format.

This cannot be extensive and methods to register new formats for any 
application are offered broadly. As a result standardisation needs to 
happen somewhere else. For the clipboard, thus far, this has largely 
been bilateral.

Works on MathML makes me believe that media-types are the right place to 
contain the name of the media-type when it makes sense to exchange this 
over a clipboard (and probably through drag-and-drop). Hence I recommend 
this on this list on occasions and hope that it makes its way to the 
media-type declaration RFC.

> The inclusion of the Macintosh format on
> its own in 6838 was odd to me. As an identifier I would think a GUID 
> would be closer on the Microsoft side to the Apple identifier than 
> anything to do with the clipboard.

The inclusion of the Macintosh formats date to a time when Apple was 
controlling the (not so broad) 4-letter-codes assigned to each 
application for file-types and clipboard-formats. This has been 
abandoned.

UTIs have come as a natural replacement in the Apple world.

Paul