At 09:35 23/03/05 -0500, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
Graham Klyne wrote:
I feel compelled to ask the question: should this really be a text/csv type rather than application/csv? Past comments by Ned Freed with respect to text/html suggest possibly not, but similarity with text/tab-separated-values suggests maybe yes. I don't personally feel strongly about this.
Can you point to Ned's message?
OK, it's here: http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-mime/mail-archive/msg00622.html
These are actually fairly different cases. HTML is typically littered with tons of formatting gunk that nobody wants to see or muck with. (HTML where the actual content beings huundreds of lines from the beginning of the object is fairly common.) CSV formats are not cluttered up this way, can and frequently are read or written by relative novices with no special tools. I really can see this one going either way. Ned