- From: Neil St.Laurent <neil@bigpic.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:55:22 -0600
- To: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@cityonline.se>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
> You have suffixes, and at least microsoft seems to think that that is > the same thing (actions depend on them, etc, in windoze 95/NT/98). And > in KDE (one of the unixbased user-frindly desktop environments) you > actually have content-types.. Suffixes are a convenient way to represent types on a windows machine, but the fact still is that opening a file (standard C, C++, or other languages) doesn't present you with a content type. Similar with FTP, in FTP transfer why should you assume your local extension mapping is what the person who uploaded it to the FTP site had intended. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ Mortar: Advanced Web Development <http://mortar.bigpic.com/> Neil St.Laurent <mailto:stlaurent@bigpic.com> Big Picture Multimedia +1.403.265.8018
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