Re: RSS Version 0.91 Out

[danda@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)]

I forgot to add that a downside to doing this is that the publisher then does not
receive any feedback that the image size is too big, and therefore may be unaware that
we are scaling the image, etc.  Unless we implement warning notification in addition
to error notification, or something like that. The upside is that the format is more
useful for non my.netscape applications.

-dan

Dan Libby wrote:

> Ian Davis wrote:
>
> > Do you check the image size every time? If I make a conforming image
> > today, register with Netcenter and then change the image to some
> > ridiculously huge one tomorrow do you throw an error?
> >
>
> If you simply change the image without changing your RSS file, then the HTML in
> our page will still have your old width and height values in the <IMG> tag, so the
> browser will scale the image to fit that size.  If you had previously ommitted
> width and height, we will default those attributes to 88x31.  If you post a new
> RSS file with a width or height value that is too large, we will reject the file.
> This last is where I was saying we could be a bit smarter by simply using our max
> values in place of your too large values.
>
> -dan