[gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions

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Expediency is what always gets us into trouble.  Does anyone remember the Y2K 
bug?

--- On Wed, 7/9/08, Jay Nemrow <jnemrow@xxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Jay Nemrow <jnemrow@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions
To: gopher@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 12:28 AM

Although the philosophy of all of this just gets my heart beating faster,
Cameron has the perspective of the person actually coding all of this in the
real world client!  I would just as soon have the client working smoothly as
to force it to obey a nice idea that makes coding a nightmare.  Let the
programmer win the day!
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
> Here's the problem with that, though: the browser thinks in MIME
types.
> To get the proper MIME type out of a file that could be arbitrarily CSS,
> XML *or* HTML, you'd need to resort to content sniffing or extension
> grokking, which is what I want to avoid.
>
> I'm fully in agreement with your first paragraph, but for certain
tasks a
> 1:1 mapping is going to be unavoidable from an expediency point of view.
> At least for this specific case I cannot see a way of avoiding it.
>
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