Re: [Openexr-devel] EXR Image File MIME Type?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 22 September 2011 Sep 15:39:34 Brad Hards wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:51:01 AM Stewart Dickson wrote:
> > But, I see that the OpenEXR MIME type has not been registered as yet:
> > http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/index.html
> > 
> > Is "image/x-exr" the correct standard to use?
> The shared-mime-info database says image/x-exr.
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/tree/freedesktop.org.xml.in#n3797
> 
> It might or might not be considered a standard, depending on
> how much formality you're looking for.
> 

It would be good to have it formal in 
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml. We recently 
found a nasty problem where some applications added an 
application/x-extension-exr mimetype and tis interfered with the image/x-exr 
that Krita was expecting.
-- 
Boudewijn Rempt
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