https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4421

--- Comment #54 from Rob Lanphier (RobLa) <[email protected]> 2010-04-02 03:46:19 
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> But I'm wondering what happens with non-image files.  Should it be
> impossible to tell videos from images from PDFs based on the names?  You would
> have no idea from looking at the wikitext source whether [[File:Foo]] is
> including image or video or audio or maybe something else entirely.

How does one know the difference between a GIF and an animated GIF based on
file extension?  How does one know the difference between a Flash file (.swf)
that just has static vector art versus video?  How does one know the difference
between a static .svg and one that includes a <video> element?

The arguments in the "URI Opacity" section of the W3C's Architecture group
apply to this conversation too:
http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-opacity

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