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Bug 25320 - multipart/x-mixed-replace
Summary: multipart/x-mixed-replace
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 editorial
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/iana.html#...
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Reported: 2014-04-11 05:38 UTC by Julian Reschke
Modified: 2015-06-17 06:06 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Julian Reschke 2014-04-11 05:38:46 UTC 
Questions:

a) why the "x-" prefix?

b) where is the actual definition of the media type?
Comment 1 Henri Sivonen 2014-04-11 12:04:02 UTC 
(In reply to Julian Reschke from comment #0)
> a) why the "x-" prefix?

Because the feature was implemented with the x- prefix in Netscape 1.x.
Comment 2 Julian Reschke 2014-04-11 12:11:43 UTC 
(In reply to Henri Sivonen from comment #1)
> (In reply to Julian Reschke from comment #0)
> > a) why the "x-" prefix?
> 
> Because the feature was implemented with the x- prefix in Netscape 1.x.

Uh! And I thought this was something new. Thanks.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2015-06-17 06:06:57 UTC 
See comment 1