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2010.01.19 20:28 "Re: eta for bigtiff support?", by Olivier Paquet
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > The main concern is for cases where different applications would be > usefully selected based on MIME type. Exactly. The only case I can think of right now is a hypothetical "my mail reader displays TIFF inline but doesn't support BigTIFF so I want to launch an external application for that". This doesn't seem like a very good example so... any better ideas? This needs to be weighed against the downsides of using a different MIME type. IMO: slower adoption by applications and perhaps user confusion. I'm uncertain how much this matters given the target audience for BigTIFF. Olivier