SVG12: image/svg+xml gzip requirements

Thomas DeWeese Thomas.DeWeese at Kodak.com
Wed Dec 8 22:00:39 CET 2004


Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

> * Thomas DeWeese wrote:
> 
>>>The TAG finding has no impact whatsoever on SVG Viewer conformance
>>>requirements, I think the TAG will happily clarify this if you ask
>>>for it on www-tag. You would need to argue that this is allowed by
>>>the SVG Viewer conformance requirements. I think it is clear that
>>>this is not allowed by those conformance requirements.
>>
>>   Huh?  If the network layer detects that the HTTP response
>>is in fact GZip encoded even though the header isn't set and decodes
>>it why is this a problem?
> 
> Because such software does not interoperate with software that does not
> perform such error correction. 

    Well, you are free to your option but don't reference a TAG finding
saying it doesn't support this behavior when it clearly does!



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