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Re: [media-types] Templates for basic MIME types

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Mon, 28 December 2020 14:15 UTC

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[Eric Prud'hommeaux]
> I can imagine you are speaking either of
>
> 1 formats for which there is a specification (e.g. W3C XML Schema) and
>   no corresponding media type (i.e. I have to inspect an
>   application/xml document to know if it's XML Schema)
>
> 2 commonly-used media types that don't show up in the registry (no
>   examples come to mind)

One example of the latter is patch types, which I tried to get
registered, but gave up based on the lack of feedback here. :)

There are also heaps of unregistered multimedia related MIME types, as
can be seen from
<URL: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport >.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

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