Re: Image sprites use cases

On Sep 1, 2009, at 1:05 PM, "David Perrell" <davidp@hpaa.com> wrote:

> Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> | Because there's no widely-used program that authors can use to  
> encode
> | their files using multipart MIME.  ZIP support, on the other hand,  
> is
> | ubiquitous.
>
> But then there's that pesky task of creating manifest files.
>
> Seems this idea needs a resource file with an up-front directory/ 
> index and a means to automatically create that file for a given page.

I assumed the manifest would be an optional XML file in the root of  
the zip. If it is missing, then all cache values are the same, and you  
make-do without content-types. Call it "manifest.xml" and make it  
simple enough to edit by hand.