Re: Proposed Freenet MIME types

> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 02:34:18PM +0100, Jano wrote:
> > Jerome Flesch wrote:
> > > http://wiki.freenetproject.org/AnotherFreenetIndexFormat
> > > It doesn't allow to do a complete hierarchie, but you can use the tag
> > > <option name="category" value="[...]" /> to sort the files (I will
> > > probably do a list with the most common option names to avoid
> > > duplication). If you think a complete hierarchie would be usefull, we
> > > can update the specs.
>
> Or you could introduce more tags. Aren't user agents supposed to ignore
> tags they don't know? I suppose that includes tags included inside that
> tag though, so it wouldn't be back compatible?
>
Yes, it can be also a solution. I'll think of it.


> > Thanks. Seen that, hierarchies could be constructed by using options. We
> > could balance if we prefer explicit support or a convention on some
> > option names used for this. I.e:
> >
> > <option name="folder" value="some relative path" />
> >
> > and so on...
> >
> > Using options has the advantage that no special measures have to be taken
> > (besides documentation, as you say), and current parsers would be valid
> > even if they would miss the hierarchy. Other improvements handled in this
> > way would also be transparently handled. The obvious drawback is that
> > unaware coders could misuse a reserved option name, although I see this
> > as minor given the size of freenet.

-- 
Jerome Flesch.