Re: Where did the _logo_ functions go?
| From: | Nikita Popov | Date: | Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:22:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Where did the _logo_ functions go? | ||
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Why would you need those data uris?
>
> For what reason would anyone need the GUIDs? To get the logo maybe? I
> don't know.
>
> > I mean, if you want to embed a PHP logo,
> > then just embed that logo. If you want to put an image on a website, you
> > would usually also just include that .png, rather than creating a data
> URI
> > from it and embedding that.
> >
> > I don't see a reason to expose those uris.
> >
>
> I didn't see a reason to expose the GUIDs either, but hey I'm just
> stating the obvious here.
>
> PHP had a way to get the logo exposed to userspace. It seems like we
> just make up these reasons as we go along. When they were GUIDs they
> were OK when they became data URIs, obviously (and for reasons that
> appear to be obvious only to those who make these decisions) they
> weren't.
>
The GUID functions were added decades ago, but now we're talking about ...
now. Things changed. PHP isn't in the just-add-a-function-for-everything
mode anymore. Unless displaying a PHP logo is a common thing to do there is
no reason to add a function for it.