[CREATE] OpenRaster MIME type confusion

Cyrille Berger cberger at cberger.net
Sat Jun 20 09:09:04 PDT 2009


On Friday 19 June 2009, Martin Renold wrote:
> hi,
>
> I did ask this at least twice while doing the file layout specification,
> and I proposed "image/openraster" as MIME type, and the answer was silence.
> However I see now that Krita uses "image/openraster-archiving" everywhere.
>
> This leads to confusion with Desktop integration, thumbnail generators,
> etc.
>
> Even if there will be several OpenRaster fileformats, it might make sense
> to call the maximum compatibility variant just "image/openraster".  Is
> there a good reason for not doing that?  If so we should change the spec
> and adapt the other two implementations ASAP.
Well since the file format is called OpenRaster (long-term) Archiving, that's 
why I used 'image/openraster-archiving' as mimetype. But I don't really care 
either way.

-- 
Cyrille Berger
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