Posted by Paul Lautman on 12/08/07 12:52

Norman Peelman wrote:
> Captain Paralytic wrote:
>> On 5 Dec, 22:06, Norman Peelman <npeel...@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>>> Paul Lautman wrote:
>>>> Norman Peelman wrote:
>>>>> anything else should get parsed as html or it's respective
>>>>> mime-type.
>>>> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe...
>>> It does in the proper context... which I didn't use. :)
>>>
>>> Norm
>>
>> No, there is no context where a posseive its has an apostrophe.
>
> Exactly. I didn't use it properly, it's not meant to be possessive.
> It's a typo.

Err, the english is fine apart from the apostrophe. a file has a mime type
and so the mime type is possessed by the file, therefore the "its" indicates
that the file possesses a mime type.

If you intended it as an abbreviation, you would have been saying
"anything else should get parsed as html or it is respective mime-type."

which is utter nonesense.

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