Michael Kear wrote:
What’s the point of doing this? Saving 4 characters per image as a way of reducing bandwidth? Is there any other purpose?
*/ /*
There is another purpose.
See this W3C Note: <http://www.w3.org/TR/chips/#gl3>
"Serve static content without file extension CM
The reason why one should serve static content without file extension is similar to the reason stated above : the content manager may, at some point, want to change the document format used to serve a resource, yet the resource would remain "equivalent". For example, switching from an image file format to an equivalent format, or switching from plain text to HTML...
File extensions should therefore be hidden for static content, using content-negotiation (see Guideline 7: Server-driven content negotiation.), proxying or URI mapping technologies."
/AndersN
*****************************************************
The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/
See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
for some hints on posting to the list & getting help
*****************************************************
