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Bug 13882 - Drop "Any type ending in "+xml"". It's not web compatible. There are sites that use application/pls+xml and expects it to open in some media player, and sites that use application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml and expect it to open in Google Earth.
Summary: Drop "Any type ending in "+xml"". It's not web compatible. There are sites th...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-08-24 08:45 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-11 23:09 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-08-24 08:45:34 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/history.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#navigate-fragid-step
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#navigate-fragid-step

Comment:
Drop "Any type ending in "+xml"". It's not web compatible. There are sites
that use application/pls+xml and expects it to open in some media player, and
sites that use application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml and expect it to open in
Google Earth.

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Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2011-08-24 09:04:29 UTC 
It could instead say "A supported type ending in "+xml""
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-09-10 05:20:44 UTC 
I'll just change the spec to exclude those types that have registered handlers.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-11 23:08:30 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: see comment 1 and comment 2.
Comment 4 contributor 2011-10-11 23:09:15 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6661.
Check-in comment: Make the */*+xml handling be fallback handling, rather than overriding any registered handlers for specific XML types.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6660&to=6661