Subject: Re: Mime-types
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 13:56:44 CST
At 9:43 -0800 8/02/01, Paul Rohr wrote:
>Quick background note -- on two platforms, we've been setting MIME types for
>quite a while now:
>
> abi/src/af/xap/win/xap_Win32App.cpp (rev 1.28; Apr 5, 1999)
> abi/src/af/xap/beos/xap_BeOSApp.cpp (rev 1.7; Jul 3, 1999)
>
>In both cases, the changes were made to notify the OS about which files we
>support, so that they'd be double-clickable. (BTW, does this Just Work on
>any other platforms without user intervention? It should.) Unfortunately,
>the MIME types chosen were different:
>
> Win32 -- application/abiword
> BeOS -- text/x-abiword
Can't we just move these definitions to XP code to provide to every
platform that need it ? (I plan to add MIME type to the File Exchange
file types databases on MacOS).
Hub
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