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A MIME type after MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is a two-part identifier for file formats on the Internet.

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HTML5 video will not loop

I have a video as a background to a web page, and I am trying to get it to loop. Here is the code:
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What is the difference between "image/png" and "image/x-png"?

What is the difference between "image/png" and "image/x-png"?
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Return a PHP page as an image

I am trying to read a image file (.jpeg to be exact), and 'echo' it back to the page output, but have is display an image... my index.php has an image link like this: and my php script does basically this: 1)…
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What is the correct Protobuf content type?

JSON has application/json as a standard. For protobuf some people use application/x-protobuf, but I saw something as odd as application/vnd.google.protobuf being proposed. Do we have an RFC or some other standard that I can use as a reference for…
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"not well-formed" error in Firefox when loading JSON file with XMLHttpRequest

I'm getting a "not well-formed" error in the error console of Firefox 3.0.7 when the JavaScript on my page loads a text file containing an object in JavaScript Object Notation format. If the file contains nothing but the JSON object, it produces the…
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What MIME type if JSON is being returned by a REST API?

My REST API returns JSON. I'm currently returning text/plain as the MIME type, but it feels funny. Should I be returning application/x-javascript or some other type? The second question is with regard to the HTTP status code for error…
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