[issue22589] mimetypes uses image/x-ms-bmp as the type for bmp files

[Jonathan Watt]

Jonathan Watt <jwatt at jwatt.org> added the comment:

Using image/x-ms-bmp because that's all that IE7 supports makes no sense. Chrome doesn't support image/x-ms-bmp (it only supports the official IANA type image/bmp), so if the concern is over browser support then it's clear that Chrome (the browser with the most market share) should trump IE7 (a browser that stopped getting support/security updates at the beginning of 2016, and has virtually no browser share).

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