User:Dmose:Fx-Docs:ContentTypeProcessing

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Status

Feature tracking bug
  • bug 372949
  • any other high-level tracking bugs can be listed here

Any relevant status comments for the feature can be placed here.

Overview

Streamline and extend the handling of MIME content on the web.

Motivation

Our current MIME-type handling has some rough edges that needs to be cleaned up. Additionally, more and more people are using web-applications as their primary way to handle specific types of content (e.g. calendar, mail). It should be possible for web sites to register content-handlers for types other than just RSS.

Use Cases

  • dynamic handoff
    • subscribe to an ICS calendar in a web calendar application
    • properly hand off streaming content (music, video) to a local or embedded player
  • static handoff
    • take an event in an ICS file generated by evite and insert it into a web calendar
    • allow a website to render an Excel spreadsheet into HTML in an iframe
    • hand off a mailto: URL to a web mail app for composition

Requirements

  • CON-001a P1 FR Support web services as MIME type handlers
  • CON-001b P2 FR Minimize/remove local MIME type database for local applications
  • CON-001c P3 FR Properly handle streaming content types - embedded or handed off to a helper app

Schedule

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Design & Implementation

Documentation
Repository
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API Changes

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Extensibility

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Customization

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Performance

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Reliability/Stability

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Security

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Privacy

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Global Audience

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Web Compatibility

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Other

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Discussion & Implications

Caveats / What We've Tried Before

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References

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