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...or video and audio, regardless of the underlying data stream format. I think very few people use xanim to play MPEG audio, and equally few people use xmms to play MPEG video, despite the fact that the underlying data format is fundamentally the same. And indeed, we see distinct mime types for audio/mpag and video/mpeg, and distinct file extensions. To draw another analogy that is somewhat further afield, XML is another data format that has many semantically different uses. For example, there is XHTML (a presentation-oriented web document markup language), SVG (a vector graphics format), DocBook/X...

...format. I think very few > > > people use xanim to play MPEG audio, and equally few people use xmms > > > to play MPEG video, despite the fact that the underlying data format > > > is fundamentally the same. And indeed, we see distinct mime types for > > > audio/mpag and video/mpeg, and distinct file extensions. > > > > Given our differing assumptions, your argument hinges here. I completely > > agree that users prefer separate applications for audio and video, but had > > usually put cause and effect in the other order. The interfaces...