- From: Devin Bayer <devin.bayer@rochester.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 20:07:22 -0700
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Jul 4, 2005, at 17:27, Orion Adrian wrote: > > On 7/4/05, David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> >>> Ok, rather than uncompressed, use PNG. But content negotiation >>> should >>> be something done by a server, not a user. A person's time is far >>> more >> >> It can be rather difficult when the server is a CD-ROM containing >> an offline copy. > > It's a rather simplistic system that could be added to web browsers. > I'm not advocating it. I'm advocating that material designed to be > presented on a server use the advantages of a server solution. What about when the material is used in ways it wasn't designed for. I designed websites before using content negotiation for alternative image formats. But it becomes a problem when one wants to recursivly download the site. References of the form <img src="images/dog" /> create two problems. The OS will not recognize the file type, and the web browser will not recognize the file type. Maybe five years down the read we can expect files without extensions to be correctly handled, but for now being explicit is more convenient. -- Devin Bayer
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