please review: application/smil MIME type registration

[Philipp Hoschka]

Anders,

I am picking this up again - sorry for the long delay.

The optional parameter that you requested has been added to 
the latest draft - see
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoschka-smil-media-type-09.txt

-Philipp

"Anders Nohlgren (EPL)" wrote:
> 
> Philipp,
> couldn't there be an optional parameter to the SMIL MIME type (indicating e.g. profile) that could be used for content-negotiation purposes? I fully understand your arguments that such a parameter is not absolutely necessary, but in some cases it would be a useful feature. If you want to deliver an optimised SMIL file to the client you should be able to indicate the supported profile. The last sentence of clause 14.4.4 in the SMIL 2.0 recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/smil-basic.html#smilBasicNS-GuidePlayer) talks about processing the test attributes already on the server side. When doing so it would help to know the SMIL profile that the client supports. Providing this with the MIME type would be efficient I think.
> 
> Best regards,
>                  Anders
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Philipp Hoschka [mailto:ph at w3.org]
> > Sent: 22 June 2001 19:45
> > To: Peter Stark (ECS)
> > Cc: ietf-types at iana.org; www-smil at w3.org
> > Subject: Re: please review: application/smil MIME type registration
> >
> >
> > Peter,
> >
> > I presume your use case is that a client should be able to
> > request a SMIL-basic document via content-negotiation ?
> > This is not the way SMIL basic works.
> >
> > All SMIL 2.0 documents are also SMIL basic documents
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/smil-basic.html#BaseGuideNS-BasicDoc
> >
> > However, SMIL basic user agents interpret only a well-defined
> > subset of the markup that may occur in a SMIL 2.0 docucment (see
> > clause 5. and 7. at
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/smil-basic.html#BaseGuideNS-BasicUserAgent
> >
> > To avoid an unsatisfactory user experience, an author can
> > 1) only use markup defined for SMIL basic
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/smil-basic.html#smilBasicNS-Basic
> > 2) write a "scalable document" that adapts gracefully depending
> > on whether it is played on a SMIL 2.0 or a SMIL basic user
> > agent:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/smil-basic.html#smilBasicNS-GuideDoc
> >
> > The same approach can be applied to any profile, not just SMIL
> > basic, and there is thus no need to use the MIME type to distinguish
> > between profiles.
> >
> > -Philipp
> >
> > "Peter Stark (ECS)" a écrit :
> > >
> > > How does can it be used to distinguish between full SMIL
> > 2.0 and a profile such as SMIL Basic?
> > >
> > > PS
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Philipp Hoschka [mailto:ph at w3.org]
> > > > Sent: den 21 juni 2001 18:03
> > > > To: ietf-types at iana.org
> > > > Cc: www-smil at w3.org
> > > > Subject: please review: application/smil MIME type registration
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > We'd like to start the two-week review of
> > > >
> > > > http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoschka-smil-medi
> > > > a-type-08.txt
> > > >
> > > > describing the registration of the application/smil MIME type for
> > > > SMIL 1.0 and SMIL 2.0.
> > > >
> > > > -Philipp Hoschka, W3C
> > > >
> >