ogg [was Re: [clahey at ximian.com: docbook mime type detection]]

[Stanislav Brabec]

Luis Villa wrote:

> > There's no way to do that. That's what you get for having the same mime-
> > type for 2 different types of data. Some types that can be both video
> > and audio-only (like 3gpp files) allow web authors to differentiate them
> > through additional mime-types (audio/3gpp and video/3gpp).
> 
> That is *spectacularly* broken. I assume the ogg people have been
> larted for this?

The IANA registry is broken for historical reasons. They accepted 
container types as image/, video/, audio/, because there were used so in
past.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608#c7

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608#c5


I see possible solution in multipart/x-tiff, multipart/x-quicktime for
container MIME types and using of image/tiff and video/quicktime only
for files with guaranteed contents.

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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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