OT Re: [relaxng-user] MIME type for RELAX NG

[Frans Englich]

On Monday 13 December 2004 18:26, John Cowan wrote:
> Frans Englich scripsit:
> > I think the "Right" answer to that is that the user agent should be
> > properly configured to handle that mimetype in a suitable/preferrable
> > way. In practice, it's another matter, though.
>
> AFAIK there is no way to tell browsers "Display this type as text/plain".

Not what I know either, but should they at all tell that? MIME types are not 
for communicating how a file should be treated in a certain GUI; I think it 
would be to misuse MIME and to rely on certain de-facto behaviors on certain 
browsers -- the web server should only serve files and tell what types they 
are, /how/ they are treated is a user agent thing. AFAICT.

In KDE it's solved by MIME inheritance, that a MIME type can also be another 
type, in this case text/xml(if no program is registered for RNG, use an 
editor which can handle text/xml). IIRC.


Cheers,

		Frans