Re: Bonobo UI stuff

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 7 Jul 2001, Seth Nickell wrote:

> > I think there should also be a way to put references to "local" images
> > into the XML instead of encoding the whole image.
> 
> I see no particular reason to restrict this to "local" images....why
> don't we use URIs instead? For example, my DAV server is pretty much as
> fast as my local filesystem (since its running through local loopback
> when I'm at my home system).
> 

It is very bad idea to include binary blobs like images inside XML files. 
It is bad enough with document but almost unspeakable evil for interface -
we really shouldn't go down this path.

>
> -Seth
> 

	Sander

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