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MIME types demystified #12

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Rowno opened this issue Jun 16, 2012 · 2 comments
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MIME types demystified #12

Rowno opened this issue Jun 16, 2012 · 2 comments
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Rowno commented Jun 16, 2012 •
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sukima commented Mar 19, 2016

type/x-whatever is for unregistered or experimental while the type/prs.whatever is for personal or vanity. While that makes sense from a gramatical/vocabulary perspective when it comes to making a type of your own that you plan to use for your own application it leads little information on which one is most appropiot. Sadly, a Google search yields the same basic definitions and no guidance on which one to pick.

Do you know what the contextual difference between those two are?

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Rowno commented Mar 21, 2016

Sorry, I have no idea. 😄 But I'm guessing that with the x- prefix the intention is to eventually get it added to the standard like what happened with the WOFF mime type, which started life as application/x-font-woff and then got standardised as application/font-woff.

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