- From: <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:46:50 +0200
- To: Ian Davey <ISDavey@devon-cc.gov.uk>
- cc: "'www-amaya@w3.org'" <www-amaya@w3.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:55:20 +0100."
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> Jim wrote:
>
> > Why it is not w3c_home.PNG so we know what it is?
>
> It would make sense.
When this page is on a Web server, this allows the server to return the
right format (png, gif, jpg, tif, bmp, etc.) according to:
- the list of formats supported by the browser (specified in the http header)
- the list of formats available on the server.
It's called the content negotiation
In our example, the W3C server returns w3c_home.PNG to Amaya and perhaps
w3c_home.gif to another browser.
Summary information about graphics on the Web is given at
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Activity
Regards
Irene.
Received on Friday, 16 October 1998 10:46:55 UTC