Subject: Re: Mime-types
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 18:11:34 CST
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:56:18AM +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> > The second is the label to give to the output files that abiword
> > produces. Since the files are textual, and the text category
> > is a valid place for our files, I would suggest text/abiword as
> > the content type for the files.
> >
> > Thus this mapping results in telling the system that text/abiword
> > (or really just text/*) files are handled by the type identified
> > as application/vnd.abisuite.abiword.
> >
>
> Can we register gzipped abiword format too? The gzipped version is over an
> order of magnitude smaller and is ideal for emailing to people. It is fun
> to receive a 40 kb Word doc, import it into Abi and save it as a 3 kb
> gizpped format, with no loss of information :-)
I have to say, given that Word goes to some lengths to have small data
structures (or so I thought, is that right Dom), they don't compress
the text at all. Seems sort of strange. Too bad for them.
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