Re: Bonobo UI stuff

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Chipzz wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Sander Vesik wrote:
> 
> > From: Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>
> > Subject: Re: Bonobo UI stuff
> >
> > 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.
> 
> What about xpm?
> 

I don't think any binary blobs (base64, uu or however encoded) are a good
idea inside XML. 

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