- From: David J Woolley <djw@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:25:20 +0100
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
> PNG images. Windows 95 is the same. The Browsers can view the images > without the .PNG on the end but not any other application > This is fundamental to the Microsoft way of doing things. Microsoft work from file extensions, Unix works from looking at the first few bytes (although compilers look at extensions) and Macintosh and web servers use out of band file type information. Internet Explorer, applied to HTML, breaks the Microsoft rule in that it uses Unix rules, even when it should be using web rules, and will interpret files as HTML in spite of extensions and Content-Type declaring otherwise. (Some tools for Windows will use Unix rules, but will normally only be launched based on MS rules.) -- David Woolley - Office: David Woolley <djw@bts.co.uk> BTS Home: <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> Wallington TQ 2887 6421 England 51 21' 44" N, 00 09' 01" W (WGS 84)
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