@Guy-on-Poast
Well tbh file extensions are pretty bad. They are basically useless and Windows relies on that too much while at the same time hiding them by default.
the mime type should be stored in the file's tags
@izaya @matrix @Guy-on-Poast What's a tag? For binary formats you can magic number them, but any kinda of plain text and it's ugly and annoying at best
@izaya @matrix @Guy-on-Poast So metadata that's not actually part of the file. Requires external effort and tracking, and wouldn't even copy if you transferred it. Why not "tag" them but in the name, like, an extension?
@izaya@social.shadowkat.net
@izaya @matrix @Guy-on-Poast Yes, and standard and normal and necessary already. That's obviously better than having to ship an extra XML file with everything
@izaya @matrix @Guy-on-Poast This is what you're proposing is actually done half the time. Some mysterious XML file in some hidden opaque place
