--On Friday, August 25, 2006 12:05 AM -0700 Plenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I disagree. To check out what happens I converted a JPG picture into a GIF
file
and sent it to myself. One time I converted it with IrfanView and the
second time with PaintShop Pro. Both GIF files had the result
"gift
On Friday 25 August 2006 11:20, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> We need to stop giving a free pass to broken content creation software just
> because it's popular. When someone sends you broken content, you should
> react the same way you would if they sent you documents on dirt-smeared
> paper. Stop lett
> I think we should discourage all broken content in email and on the
web.
But who is to decide what is "broken". Just because
giftext/giffix/gocr/etc. fail to parse it, doesn't necessarily mean it's
broken. The software may be buggy (note the patches on the download
page needed to make these
On Friday 25 August 2006 11:33, Kash, Howard (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:
> > I think we should discourage all broken content in email and on the
>
> web.
>
> But who is to decide what is "broken". Just because
> giftext/giffix/gocr/etc. fail to parse it, doesn't necessarily mean it's
> broken.
Yes,
> Yes, by definition, it DOES mean its broken.
So when then giftext author made an error in assuming every image would
have a global colormap, he redefined the GIF specification so that any
that don't are no longer valid?
Howard
On Friday 25 August 2006 11:40, Kash, Howard (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:
> > Yes, by definition, it DOES mean its broken.
>
> So when then giftext author made an error in assuming every image would
> have a global colormap, he redefined the GIF specification so that any
> that don't are no longer valid?
On 25-Aug-06, at 3:20 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Friday, August 25, 2006 12:05 AM -0700 Plenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
online.de> wrote:
I disagree. To check out what happens I converted a JPG picture
into a GIF
file
and sent it to myself. One time I converted it with IrfanView and the
second
From: "Gino Cerullo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 25-Aug-06, at 3:20 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Friday, August 25, 2006 12:05 AM -0700 Plenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
online.de> wrote:
I disagree. To check out what happens I converted a JPG picture
into a GIF
file
and sent it to myself. One time I
>>> I think we should discourage all broken content in email and on the
>>> web.
>>>
>>> At one time we could assume that broken content was an honest
>>> mistake and make an attempt at fixing it. But with the rise of
>>> malicious content attempting to exploit bugs in content handlers
>>>
