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Bug 21393 - Move away from "media type" and towards "MIME type" where it makes sense
Summary: Move away from "media type" and towards "MIME type" where it makes sense
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: MIME (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Gordon P. Hemsley
QA Contact: sideshowbarker+mimespec
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Reported: 2013-03-26 00:12 UTC by Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
Modified: 2013-05-07 18:33 UTC (History)
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Description Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-03-26 00:12:03 UTC 
We have a terminology clash between CSS and MIME: "media type" is ambiguous. The path of least resistance is probably to move MIME-related specs towards "MIME type" and leave "media type" for CSS.
Comment 1 Gordon P. Hemsley 2013-05-07 18:33:24 UTC 
I did this back in March, but forgot to push the commit to GitHub:

https://github.com/whatwg/mimesniff/commit/cd68f8cdb9735d2f19097829e4f6ded53e0976cd

This was essentially a find and replace, so if you see any terminology conflicts, feel free to reopen this bug, but I think I can close it. From now on, mimesniff will used terms derived from "MIME type" and leave "media type" to CSS.