Re: Amaya 1.3b

Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr wrote:
> 
> In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:55:20 +0100."
>              <25CC9C11BD12D111BA5500805F8B63692252A9@COR-EXG1>
> > 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.
That works if it is on the server. It does not work if it is on a
computer. Why not add the .PNG to the end of the image file name?
All jif and jpg have a .jif or .jpg on the image file name.
Jim FitzSimons
Mailto:cherry@neta.com

Received on Friday, 16 October 1998 11:44:27 UTC