- From: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:31:33 +0100
- To: Henrik Dvergsdal <henrik.dvergsdal@hibo.no>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On 28 Mar 2007, at 10:12, Henrik Dvergsdal wrote: > > I think we should consider including support for multipart > responses in HTML. Among other things this would provide: > > - easy preloading of critical components without using JavaScript Do you mean pre-loading as in 'early asynchronous' loading? I think this should be left to UA's, who seem to be doing an ok job at doing this and trying to reduce FOUC problems. > > - improved digital rights management of images etc. without using > flash or other plug-ins. (No need to make such resources directly > accessible on the internet.) > -1 DRM should not be encouraged, let alone by an html spec. It would also be mostly a waste of time anyway, screen grabbing would remain a way to get the picture. Perhaps you should stego a copyright into your images? > - a mechanism for hiding scripts and stylesheets from (average) users. > -1 Again, the UA has to be able to read the script and stylesheet to use them, so anyone would be able to bypass the security anyway, and again a lot of effort could be wasted on this. > Syntacticaly I think it would involve only a tiny change in the > specification. We only need to extend src-attributes etc. to accept > references to internal attachments instead of just URL's. > > -- > Henrik >
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