Re: Endless gamma in eXIf 2017-0119
"Soni L." <[email protected]>
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On 07/02/17 01:40 AM, Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Soni L. <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > I still think that a giant "NOT FOR USE AS IMAGE METADATA" string > in the > middle of the chunk would strongly discourage developers from > accidentally using it as image metadata. > > > The eXIf data isn't necessarily for human readers. In many cases, no > human will see it. And if they do, they'll notice that it's in ALL > CAPS and > won't read it, recognizing that it's some sort of boilerplate to be > ignored. > > Glenn > Name the chunk something less obvious so they have to look it up, put "NOT FOR USE AS IMAGE METADATA" in the syntax section of the spec, have the syntax section come first, then the description. It should be fairly obvious by then. If they still insist on using it as image metadata, then uh... Maybe they know what they're doing? Even tho they probably don't, that's a lot of effort for something you don't understand... (Or maybe I'm being totally ridiculous. I'd love to see at least one standard that's a bit more aggressive about correctness, tho...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ png-mng-misc mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/png-mng-misc