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Michael Kay wrote: > Whether a binary image is inline or referenced indirectly is pretty > immaterial: either way, you are proposing to do the image rendering work on > the server instead of on the client. That's exactly what many people are > doing today, and this thread is trying to change that. If you think it's not > a desirable goal to move more of the presentation logic to the client, then > please explain why you think so. > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > > I visited the Google Maps people here in Sydney a few months ago. They told me they browser sniffed, and used VML client-side if IE was being used and rendered to JPEG server-side otherwise. (Something like that.) The ability/decision to optimise delivery based on the capabilities is very pragmatic. Funny if Google was the main user of MS' VML :-) Cheers Rick
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