[Zope] Best practice: image extensions

[Paul Erickson]

I'd agree, except that then product authors will have to force users to 
always use the graphic type that was originally chosen.  

i.e. if you use a product that has an image called "logo.jpg", and you 
want to use an image that is a gif or png, then you'd have to name a gif 
file "logo.jpg". I don't want to know what problems that might cause.  
I completely agree that it makes looking at WebTrends much more painful 
than it should be.


-Paul

Milos Prudek wrote:

> It seems that best practice for images is to keep the .gif, .jpg and 
> .png extensions in filenames.
>
> Many web log analyzers such as wusage use Apache logs (or Z2.log) to 
> generate statistics. Log analyzers try to report images and documents 
> separately. Since the Apache or Z2.log does not contain "meta type", 
> the analyzers must rely on the file extension.
>
> If the file has no extension, the log analyzer treat is as a directory.
>
> So if your homepage has 10 extension-less images, your web log report 
> will say that:
>
> Most popular eleven directories were:
> /
> /img1
> /img2
>
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