Re: Image Tag from Liam Quinn on 2002-07-09 (www-validator@w3.org from July 2002)

From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:18:55 -0400 (EDT)
To: Simon Fuhrmann <NightSlayer@gmx.de>
cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0207091916260.19723-100000@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Simon Fuhrmann wrote:

>    <p>
>      <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img border="0"
>          src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401"
>          alt="Valid HTML 4.01!" height="31" width="88"></a>
>    </p>
>
> Why there is no file-extension (.png or so) in the img-tag src-attribut
> value (src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401")?

The www.w3.org server uses content negotiation to serve a different file
(PNG or GIF) depending on the Accept header sent by the browser.

-- 
Liam Quinn

Received on Tuesday, 9 July 2002 19:18:57 UTC