Re: MIME and Applied Biosystems chromatograms.

[Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net>]

Am Montag, den 21.01.2008, 04:44 +0100 schrieb Daniel Leidert:
> Am Montag, den 21.01.2008, 11:58 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy:

[..]
> > For the applicaiton/ab1 type, it was a typo. Some sites ask their users
> > to configure their browsers to use application/abi1, so I will declare
> > this as an alias of application/x-dna, which is not such a good name in
> > the end.
> 
> Ok. Here something comes to my mind I forgot to tell you. Vendors are
> allowed to use the "vnd." prefix (also written in one of the related
> MIME RfCs). E.g. check /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml for
> this prefix. For example OO.o uses it. So I think, maybe a better name
> would be:
> 
> application/vnd.appliedbiosystems-abif
                                   ^
Argh. RfC-compliant:

application/vnd.appliedbiosystems.abif
                                 ^
or similar (note the punctuation).

> or similar. This prefix is (also AFAIK) allowed for unregistered formats
> too.

Found it:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2048.txt (2.1.2.)

Regards, Daniel