[media-types] Uniform Type Identifiers... an update

Paul Libbrecht <paul@hoplahup.net> Wed, 17 May 2023 14:21 UTC

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Subject: [media-types] Uniform Type Identifiers... an update
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Hello list,

Since several here keep asking for an up-to-date information about 
Apple’s Uniform Type Identifiers, I came recently across the following 
video which helps understanding how Apple tries to manage UTIs.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/10696/

Among the novelties, to me, are that anything under `public` is managed 
by Apple; that must have been introduced around 2015.
Also the very abstract types are are new to me (such as being a document 
or being encodable in bytes). There’s some pan-galacticness in there.

Maybe this is useful for future media-type declarations so that people 
consider integrating a UTI.

Paul