[tei-council] another High Noon proposal

[Lou Burnard]

On 10/01/13 19:28, Martin Holmes wrote:
>
>> if you're going to make mimetype obligatory, why not just add all the
>> other attributes to the existing att.internetMedia class?
> Because there's nothing explicitly "internet" about media files,
> presumably. A mime type is actually an "Internet Media Type"
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type>, but these other
> things are not.

But if you're making them all take a mime type then surely they *are* 
all "internet media"?

Dunno what "these other things" are,

>
> (I still think requiring mimetype is a bad idea, btw)

> Why?

Because most of us can say whether something is a video or an audio, 
without knowing (or caring) necessarily what its internet media type is



>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>