
On Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 6:24:17 PM, Ben wrote: BM> [...] (I can think of at least two other uses for this BM> convention: '+zip' for formats which are a zip file with a specific BM> layout, such as JAR, Perl's PAR, mozilla.org's XPI and Quake's pk3; and BM> '+gzip'/'+bzip2' to denote a gzip compressed version of a format), but BM> it would need proper discussion and specification. For the first of those yes as its a file format; for the second, no - remember the attempt at application/gzip and then the introduction of Content-Encoding. Something which is gzipped should indicate its actual media type, and use Content-Encoding to indicate that it is gzipped. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group