[Interest] Bringing Qt, C++ To The Web

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 10:39:46 CET 2013


On 18/01/13 11:35, Mandeep Sandhu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:
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>> 18.01.2013, 12:44, "Mandeep Sandhu" <mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com>:
>>>>   to know a minimum of 3 technologies, but more like 6: HTML, JS, CSS, MIME,
>>>
>>> MIME's a tech?!?! I thought it's just a standard used in emails and
>>> HTTP headers to define the content type.
>>
>> It's also a common way to distinguish file types on Unix-like systems.
>
> OT, but isn't that done by examining file extensions or file headers
> (like how the 'file' command works in Linux)?

Once you've detected what the data is, you need to tell whomever asked 
about it what it actually is.  You need a communication protocol for 
that.  Like MIME.  So you get the request "what is this data?"  You look 
at it, and then answer "audio/mpeg", which is a MIME type.




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