- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:39:59 +0100
- To: Bcf0330@aol.com
- Cc: site-comments@w3.org
On Friday, November 11, 2005, 4:22:46 PM, Bcf0330 wrote: Bac> At the risk of sounding like a reject, I must say that I am bothered by the Bac> dimensions and file name choice of the bottom picture on this page: Bac> _http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/Inline-img.html_ Bac> (http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/Inline-img.html) . Bac> Bac> Yea, yea I know it is only a number. I have been through this many, many Bac> times before (*See below). However since some religious people have accepted it Bac> as a sign of evil, I would rather not be a part of this fray. It is not my Bac> desire to be very bothered by this image's name assignment or the particular Bac> events in Revelation. Huh? Browsers use a 6 by 6 by 6 color cube to simulate a truecolor palette in a 256 color screen mode. Its also called 'web safe colors'. Frankly I have better things to do than worry about the mystical import of this or that number. Bac> Isn't the W3C concerned about bandwidth costs here? Couldn't that image have Bac> been smaller? How about a 3 by 3 by 3 or a 4 by 4 by 4? Bac> Bac> _This_ (http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/) site was where I first took a Bac> major step to investigating this then-new-to-me file type called PNG. PNG has Bac> plenty of advantages over some over other picture formats, but I would rather Bac> stick with creating other picture formats than to suffer distress from being Bac> reminded of the evil in Revelation and the picture's name/dimensions at the Bac> bottom of _http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/Inline-img.html_ Bac> (http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/Inline-img.html) . Bac> Bac> ======================================================== Bac> NOTES: Bac> ========================================================== Bac> It is sort like this: If that part of the book of Revelation was never Bac> written, would people still have invented or accepted that number as a symbol of Bac> evil for use now and possibly in the future? Bac> Bac> *Long, long time ago, that number was not considered as an evil thing. Bac> Neither was it assigned with evil because there was no evil in existence to assign Bac> the number with. Bac> Bac> Bac> Would you think that if a person doesn't give Evil an inch of freedom, Evil Bac> would not be able to take for a mile the freedom which it does not have? Bac> Bac> Frankly, such symbol might have been any number or combination of numbers as Bac> a symbol of evil. It could have been something totally different.] -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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