[Foundation-l] Re: promotional items (was no subject)

[David Gerard]

Angela (beesley at gmail.com) [050207 07:07]:

> We can host them. We just can't allow anyone to upload potentially
> dangerous files. See Brion's email on this when pdf was first
> disallowed: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-September/025472.html


Oh, good lord. TEXT is forbidden?!

/me curses IE's crackmonkey authors

Looks like if I want SVG uploads on Commons I'll need to write a
mathematically-watertight validity checker myself. Barring no new exploits
found that use perfectly valid SVG files. Grah!


- d.