Re: [Bug-gnupedia] A Detailed Proposal - Mk I

[Imran Ghory]

On 19 Jan 2001, at 14:58, address@hidden wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Imran Ghory wrote:
> 
> > On 19 Jan 2001, at 14:06, Mike Warren wrote:
> > > "Imran Ghory" <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > We also need to consider that we may not want to make this
> > > > project web only. What if sometime in the future we wanted a
> > > > physical book copy of this encyclopedia (This would mean
> > > > articles that only work on the web should contain information
> > > > saying as much in their headers).
> > > 
> > > No. This is meta-information which may change over time. For
> > > example, it's not currently possible to put movies into books but
> > > it might be at some later date. Saying ``this article can't go in
> > > a book'' is predicting the future, and will probably get it wrong.
> > > This, like the reviews and classifications, should be separate
> > > from the actual article.
> > 
> > How about saying "this article is only text and graphics" ?
> 
> Can't that be easily determined by examining the contents of the
> article?

How ?

For instance a gif versus an animated gif, would require a header 
analysis.

Imran