Mime Types

and product lifecycles

[sundaridevi]

I was looking for a complete list of all the mime types as they vary among browsers and found this

[stackoverflow.com...]

There is useful info in there as to why IE makes up it's own mime types sometimes, but the explanation is hilarious :-)

Many, many moons ago, IE was getting to be something, but not a standard Browser any more. At the time, it was seen as a Good Thing, as 1) there wasn't anything like a standard browsers, and 2) IE was the innovation leader, bringing all kinds of cool features. Then MS decided "Yo dawg, we've got the greatest browser of all time. Of all time! No need to work on it any more, ever." That was the point from which IE (esp. IE6, once the greatest browser of all time) gradually became the obsolete horrible monster it is now. When the beast in Redmond finally awoke, behold: it was but a follower

If it sounds stylistically familiar, go to Firefox and type "about:mozilla" in the address box

[coopster]

The Apache project is usually a good source of valid mime types.