Re: Bug#127849: GIF Images Still In Use
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:33:34PM +0800, Andrew Shugg wrote:
> > > > I haven't a shred of doubt that if we just switched to PNG, there would be
> > > > enough people complaining to make reading this list a pain. :|
> > >
> > And this would stop complaints... how? :) It seems more likely that it would
> > be even more broken for some.
>
> Browsers don't care about file extensions, as long as the MIME
> information is sent. And it will be, by the content negotiation engine.
> If there's a graphical browser out there that requests '/foo' and gets a
> GIF file back with the MIME type "image/gif" and DOESN'T know how to
> display it, then I haven't heard of it.
I'm sure we'll discover a few. (Not sure if I should laugh or cry here.)
> I continue to be puzzled by your apparent NIH attitude to suggestions.
"NIH"?
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