[gopher] Re: Gopher+ Clarification
Yes.
--- Timm Murray <tmurray-gopher@wumpus-cave.net>
wrote:
> From the Gopher+ document:
>
> ----
> A lot of folks need ability to retrieve and display
> pictures, but there is no real consensus on ONE
> format
> for these pictures. We don't want to define a type
> character for every oddball picture type. Gopher+
> handles Pictures, Movies, and Sounds by defining
> three item types: ":" for bitmap images, ";" for
> movies, and "<" for sounds (originally I, M, and S
> were suggested, but they were informally in use in
> other ways; the only thing magic about ":", ";",
> and
> "<", is that they are the first characters after
> '9')
> ----
>
> When I first read this, I had thought the ':' type
> was specifically
> refering to bitmap images of the .BMP veriety. In
> other words, the
> raw, uncompressed image data. But on re-reading it,
> it seems that
> it's actually implying a deprecation of the 'g' and
> 'I' types
> ("We don't want to define a type character for every
> oddball picture
> type.") and using only ':' for images, compressed or
> not, and letting
> the MIME type be more specific.
>
> This seems like a much saner way to go about it. Is
> this the correct
> interpretation of the above?
>
>
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