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- > excuse the novice question, but doesn't x-tiff and x-wais-source
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- > imply that a particular program (running on an X Windows display)
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- > is to be called?
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- If I'm not mistaken the "x-" refers to "experimental". I.e,. these
- are not an officially registered MIME types. (There is no X Windows
- program called x-tiff, by the way.)
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- Since these naming schemes serve the same purpose there is no reason
- not to have them interoperate; this could be fitted nicely into an
- OOP API.
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