Week 22- Metadata and media types

This week's lecture will look at the idea of meta data more generally, and in particular look at how meta data supports applications such as browsers.

Powerpoint Slides


Links for this topic:

• Metadata (poor)
  
• MIME type
  
• IANA international registry MIME media types
• MIME type
• XHTML
• File Systems
• Filename Extension
• Comparison of File Systems
• List of File Formats
• NTFS
• File Managers
• Windows Explorer
• Browsers
• FireFox
• MIME types
• How FireFox determines MIME type
  
• IE
• How IE sniffs the content-type
• Handling Mime Types in IE
• Web Server
• Apache
• Adding file extensions
• XHTML file type
• IIS
• MIME types