[whatwg] Zip archives as first-class citizens

[Robin Berjon]

On 29/08/2013 15:37 , Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 8/29/13 9:32 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> Doing a mixture of sniffing and labeling has not served us very well.
>> We cannot rely solely on sniffing because of CSS and SVG. We can rely
>> solely on a standardized mapping table of extension to Content-Type.
>
> Ah, ok, the extension table is standardized, not gotten from the OS? OK,
> that works.

And shockingly enough, that's been done before:

 
http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/#rule-for-identifying-the-media-type-of-a-file-0

There could be a few things worth pilfering from that document in general.

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