Image means simply 'picture', not 'bitmap'. If what you wind up with is
something to look at, image is fine.
>Actually, an uncompressed IGES file is just ASCII, so it is
>simpler than many of the binary files in the application/*
>or image/* types. I suggested that for transmission/
>gateway purposes, IGES could be a text/* type :-)
Text/* means that a human would plausibly get useful information from
having the raw data blatted on his screen. Not all data expressed in ascii
conveys meaning to the unaided human reader (take, for example, a US tax
form); my guess is that IGES would be awfully hard to interpret sans
software, and so is inappropriate for text/*.
>so I
>don't think we really understand the intent of the top (type)
>level in the MIME system
There are many people who would agree with you here. :-)
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