[whatwg] Appcache feedback (various threads)

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, David John Burrowes wrote:
> > >
> > > I can understand wanting to do things right, in terms of using 
> > > Content-Type for the file.  I can also attest that it can be a royal 
> > > pain to diagnose when this is set wrong.  I wonder it it would make 
> > > sense to have a recommended file extension for the manifest (e.g. 
> > > "cachemanifest" so "myapp.cachemanifest"). (maybe "manifest" is a 
> > > fine extension, as implied in the spec.  It seems a bit generic of a 
> > > name to me, though). This way, web server developers could add this 
> > > into their default configurations.
> >
> > The spec's text/cache-manifest registration suggests "manifest".
> 
> That's far too generic for servers to default to mapping *.manifest to 
> text/cache-manifest.  For example, Windows uses *.manifest for SxS 
> assembly manifests.

Do they have a MIME type? If not, it doesn't much matter.

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