https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4421
--- Comment #54 from Rob Lanphier (RobLa) <[email protected]> 2010-04-02 03:46:19 UTC --- > 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 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
