On 8/20/07, Francisco J Ballesteros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you prefer embedding the "face" in each mail as metadata instead of > keeping a faces db?
Why would he? He argued for keeping icons in sync with files -- that's because files change and move. Once you link an address with a face, there are few reasons why that linkage would ever change. > I suffer the same thing with mp3 art, embedded in the mp3s. Lots of dup. data > plus some players that cannot cope with such decorated mp3 files, > including the one > in my car :( If the problem is stuffing data into a file that was never meant to be in the file, attributes are a solution. After all, you quote from jsnx did say, "But where do the oddball intermediaries put their metadata? ... [They] can't very well stuff album art into your .mp3 files" (or something like that...). -- Tom Lieber http://AllTom.com/
