[gopher] Gopher+ Clarification
>From the Gopher+ document:
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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')
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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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