Re: Discourage broken content (was: Broken images in mails)

2006-08-25 Thread John Andersen
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 letting

RE: Discourage broken content (was: Broken images in mails)

2006-08-25 Thread Kash, Howard \(Civ, ARL/CISD\)
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

Re: Discourage broken content (was: Broken images in mails)

2006-08-25 Thread John Andersen
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, by

RE: Discourage broken content (was: Broken images in mails)

2006-08-25 Thread Kash, Howard \(Civ, ARL/CISD\)
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in assuming every image would have a global colormap, he redefined the GIF specification so that any that don't are no longer valid?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

Re: Discourage broken content (was: Broken images in mails)

2006-08-25 Thread John Andersen
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in assuming every image would have a global colormap, he redefined the GIF specification so that any that don't are no longer valid? One