Re: [Zope] Zope and mime types ???

[<kosh@aesaeion.com>]

My problem is that I am starting to see a lot more rtf and plain text files with .doc extensions. People say they want things as word documents and if you give them something.txt or .rtf they freak out. However if you give it a .doc extension word will open it. However this seems like a good way to break various word processing programs. Extensions are a hack and they need to be completely eliminate.

We can eliminate them the day you can interrogate a file and have it tell you what type it is. That capability is way overdue, but current file formats do not support such a capability. Until then, we need extensions. Cheers, Tom P