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Editorial: Remove any references to "parsable MIME type" #172

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@andreubotella andreubotella commented May 11, 2021

The term "parsable MIME type" used to be part of the MIME Sniffing standard, but it was removed in whatwg/mimesniff#36. This change replaces its uses with equivalent phrasing that references the "parse a MIME type" algorithm. It also replaces mentions of "ASCII-encoded strings" with the Infra standard's definition of "ASCII string".

Closes #170.

For normative changes, the following tasks have been completed:

  • Modified Web platform tests (link to pull request)

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The term "parsable MIME type" used to be part of the MIME Sniffing
standard, but it was removed in whatwg/mimesniff#36. This change
replaces its uses with equivalent phrasing that references the "parse a
MIME type" algorithm. It also replaces mentions of "ASCII-encoded
strings" with the Infra standard's definition of "ASCII string".

Closes w3c#170.
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annevk commented May 11, 2021

You pointed out that MIME types aren't necessarily ASCII so presumably we shouldn't say that here either? Or is it (still?) incorrectly stripping parameters?

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The rest of the spec currently limits MIME types to printable ASCII, and fixing that would not be an editorial change. Although given that many of the cases of "ASCII-encoded string" would be changed to something else when fixing #43, changing them to refer to Infra's definition wasn't really needed.

As far as I can tell, MIME type parameters aren't being skipped anywhere.

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w3cbot commented Jun 15, 2021

andreubotella marked as non substantive for IPR from ash-nazg.

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