Small extension to the annotate proposal

[Martin Konold]

Am Montag, 12. Juli 2004 13:08 schrieb David Faure:

Hi,

> > > I like the idea of adding
> > >  /vendor/kolab/storage-format where value.shared would be "xml 1.0"
> > > (referring to the kolab xml storage version 1.0". This would allow to
> > > set it to 2.0 in case of major changes later, and it would also allow
> > > values like "ical 1.0" or "vcard 1.0".
> >
> > I would have to agree to this being added. More descriptive annotations
> > are good, in that if I don't know how to handle a specific folder I can
> > then simply ignore ("preserve") it, rather than making (possibly
> > incorrect) assumptions as to the folders' contents.
>
> I thought we said that such an annotation would only help _writing_ to the
> folder. When reading from it, the contents make it clear how to handle them
> (either by looking at the mimetype of the attachments or by looking at the
> extra header discussed in the other thread).

Yes, exactly! According to my understanding the annotation is used for writing 
but the actual message is used for reading. When reading the actual mime type 
determines the type while an extra option header might hint the reader (for 
efficiency).

Yours,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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