On Thursday, June 17, 2010, 9:09:32 PM, Paul wrote: PL> Dear Chris, PL> Could I suggest to add in this registration clipboard format names as PL> part of the additional information so that applications use them PL> consistently? Happy do do so - could you point to documentation on this so I can read up? Do they require separate registration with some other authority, or is it sufficient to note them here? PL> I would suggest the following for uncompressed svg as a first PL> approximation, but maybe there are existing attempts already? PL> - Windows: "SVG Image" PL> - MacOSX Uniform Type Identifier: org.w3c.svg conforms to public.image PL> and to public.xml PL> I am doubting that the 4-letter codes are still in use but I may be PL> wrong. Yes, the old MacOS 4-letter codes are mainly historical at this point, but Apple did allocate them for us (back in 1998) and RFC 4288 (from Dec 2005) seems to ask for them if they exist, so they were included. PL> paul
Additional information:
Magic number(s):
File extension(s): svg, svgz (if gzip-compressed)
Macintosh file type code(s): "svg " (all lowercase, with a space character as the fourth letter), "svgz" (all lowercase, if gzip-compressed).
-- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG