Registration of media type application/xhtml-voice+xml

[Jonny Axelsson]

On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:14:02 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi at gmx.net>  
wrote:

> Well, application/xhtml+xml has a profile parameter to indicate
> specific profiles such as XHTML+Voice; why is a new XHTML+Voice
> media type preferable here?

This is only semi-related to this question, but profile parameters are  
unreliable. OMA did something similar with a Mobile Profile of XHTML (an  
almost pure subset of XHTML), using the XHTML content type. As a  
consequence we tested parameters and found them somewhat unreliable. I  
don't remember the details but clients didn't always lop the parameters  
off, servers didn't always serve them.

I guess this just goes to show that if a feature is unused long enough  
interoperability suffers (that it is unused may also indicate that this  
wasn't such a good idea but that is another debate).


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Jonny Axelsson, Core Technology, Opera Software ASA