
For Mac OS 9 the file type was very important. I suppose there may be people still running OS 9, but I really doubt they'll be at the avant-garde of handling TTML files :-) On Aug 26, 2010, at 18:14 , Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:44 -0700, David Singer wrote:
I would leave the Mac file type code blank, myself. Or make it a text document (which it is). We no longer register these, afaik, so...
Hi David,
as far as I know, RFC 4288 indicates: [[ 4.11. Additional Information
Various sorts of optional information SHOULD be included in the specification of a media type if it is available: [...] o File name extension(s) commonly used on one or more platforms to indicate that some file contains a given media type.
o Mac OS File Type code(s) (4 octets) used to label files containing a given media type. ]] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4288.txt
So, I don't mind one way or another, but it seems to me RFC 4288 needs to be updated if we're going to drop the usage.
Philippe
David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.