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Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-voice+xml

2005-08-03 04:25:45

On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:14:02 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi(_at_)gmx(_dot_)net> wrote:

Well, application/xhtml+xml has a profile parameter to indicate
specific profiles such as XHTML+Voice; why is a new XHTML+Voice
media type preferable here?

This is only semi-related to this question, but profile parameters are unreliable. OMA did something similar with a Mobile Profile of XHTML (an almost pure subset of XHTML), using the XHTML content type. As a consequence we tested parameters and found them somewhat unreliable. I don't remember the details but clients didn't always lop the parameters off, servers didn't always serve them.

I guess this just goes to show that if a feature is unused long enough interoperability suffers (that it is unused may also indicate that this wasn't such a good idea but that is another debate).


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