Talk:Presentation layer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What is HTML doing as an example of the presentation layer? HTML is an app layer protocol!Danielcohn 18:41, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

 analogy in human communications compared to the presentation layer in network communications

Err, umm, aren't NCP (Netware Core Protocol) and AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) application protocols? Guy Harris 22:50, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

A very very minor point, but should we really say "C++ string"? I mean, that sounds like a classical C-string, in C++ there's also the std::string class (which is preferable for many tasks). This text could make someone who is only briefly acqainted with C and C++ to think that "thisisastring\0" is more of a C++ thing, than a C-thing, when actually, it is directly the opposite. Perhaps change the wording to "C/C++ string", or just plainly "C string"? Okay.. this is really a very minor point. :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.192.22.33 (talk • contribs)

Good point. Since that syntax is applicable to both languages, I think I'll change it to read "C/C++ string". — EagleOne\Talk 18:16, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] data compression

Someone should mention, that data compression is handled by the presentation layer too! Stdazi 20:32, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] examples

What is the example section about? What does it have to do with presentation layer in this context? I will remove it, if no one tries to stop me.

Kremso 21:30, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, apparently the example section is a bit incorrect. I've taken out PNG, GIF, JPEG and TIFF, since they are file formats, not presentation layer examples. I left the rest of the links untouched; they seemed ok to me. Facuq 01:48, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] JTM: presentation or application ?

The page the external link points to says:

JTM - "Job Transfer and Manipulation" was one of the initial set of OSI application-layer standards

. So does JTM really belong here ? --Jotel 18:09, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Presentation layer in the 3-tier system architecture

Is this different from the presentation layer of the 3-tier system architecture ? If yes, then that should be mentioned somewhere above and linked in the related-topics. I am not sure of that, if someone can enlighten me. mizzo (talk) 08:42, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Informal Text Style

The presentation layer is the first one where people start to care about what they are sending at a more advanced level than just a bunch of ones and zeros.

I think parts of the page need re-wording to be a bit more encyclopedic.

[edit] doubts..

Does the host to network and network to host data format conversion happen in the presentation layer? --Sylvestersteele (talk) 16:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)