2011
Media Types in RESTful HTTP - Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff
One final approach that I find very interesting was mentioned by Jan Algermissen a while ago: If your format is based on an existing one, e.g. HTML or XML, your server can actually send the same content with different MIME types, depending on the client’s capabilities. A client that only included application/json in its Accept header would then get the content labeled application/json, while one that includes the specific MIME type application/vnd.whatever would get the same content with this label applied.
2010
The proper MHTML syntax / Stoyan's phpied.com
a whole CSS file, including the way you refer to the parts later on in the CSS.
MIME and the Web from Larry Masinter on 2010-05-30 (www-tag@w3.org from May 2010)
and threadMIME was invented originally for email, based on general principles of 'messaging', foundational architecture. The role of MIME was to extend Internet messaging from ASCII-only plain text (other character sets, images, rich documents, etc.) The basic architecture of complex content messaging is:
2009
Web Things, by Mark Baker » Media type centralization is a feature, not a bug
Via Stefan, a proposal from the WSO2 gang for an approach to decentralizing media types and removing the requirement for the registration process.
Decentralizing Media Types - Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff
In a plain HTTP interaction, the Content-type and Accept headers carry information about the type of the data being transmitted and accepted, respectively. You’ve seen these media types in numerous examples, e.g. a typical request or response might have a Content-type header with the value application/xml.
Sound advice - blog
A significant weakness of HTTP in my view is its dependence on the MIME standard for media type identification and on the related iana registry. This registry is a limited bottleneck that does not have the capacity to deal with the media type definition requirements of individual enterprises or domains. Machine-centric environments rely in a higher level of semantics than the human-centric environment of the Web. In order for machines to effectively exploit information, every unique schema of information needs to be standardised in a media type and for those media types to be individually identified. The number of media types grows as machines become more dominant in a distributed computing environment and as the number of distinct environments increases.
2006
2005
XHTML advocates considered erroneous - Anne’s Weblog about Markup & Style

