How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Mon Feb 11 13:31:45 EST 2008


  Albert,

> > The MIME type of application/zip works, but Etoys is
> > using that one too.
> 
> Whatever you invent, Etoys will claim it in the next release.
> It does not matter if Etoys has any ability to handle the data.

  No.  If it is something that somebody invent for their app, we don't
have to do that (unless it makes sense).

> I'm half serious too, as is clear to anybody who has looked at
> the list of MIME types claimed by Etoys and tried them.
> Almost none make sense. It's like some kind of land grab.

  The last one you brought up, MIDI, was left behind with the Journal
integration effort but now it is fixed, BTW...

-- Yoshiki



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