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Quite possibly I don't have a clue what I'm doing.
The mime type you listed and that are listed in the FAQ have the extension:
.dat
and an application type:
application/x-ldlite
application/x-ldraw
etc.
If it doesn't matter, why specify then?
By the way, I built a small survey last night to find out which viewers are
being used the most. Time will tell if it was a waste of time or not:
http://www.marsbase.com/survey/survey.asp
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Vaughan
ben@marsbase.com
http://www.marsbase.com
"Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:FrIrEp.L5t@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.publish, Ben Vaughan writes:
> > I guess my question is: What app are most folks using?
> > I'd want to address the widest audience possible.
>
> I'm not sure if I follow.
>
> You can't do much from the server end to optimize this. The user selects
> which app to associate to the different mime-types. All the server has to • do
> is to declare what mime-type a file is, and the browser launches the • user's
> (hopefully) favorite app based upon that mime-type, depending upon which • app
> the user has associated with it.
>
> Cheers,
> - jsproat
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