- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:24:55 +0100
- To: Joćo Miguel Lopes Moreira <multi.jmlm_1970@hotmail.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Joćo Miguel Lopes Moreira wrote:
>
> Lisbon, 17 of July of 2008.
>
> David Woolley wrote:
>
> "RFC 2397. However note that anything to do with URLs is off topic and "how to" questions are off topic." (sic).
>
> Well I think this is not an "how to" question.
It[1] can only be parsed as other than a "how to"
question if the questioner would be satisfied with
a modal answer ("yes" or "no"). I think that this
is not the case, and therefore David is correct in
his interpretation of it as a "how to" question.
That does not in any sense mean that I regard it
as an unacceptable question, and David's point is
simply that there are more appropriate places to ask
such questions than "WWW-Html". It would, perhaps,
have been more helpful if David could have suggested
a such an appropriate place.
Philip TAYLOR
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[1] "Is there a way to include in the HTML ASCII file,
the binary source of an image file, like a .gif file?"
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