Re: a bad idea (fwd) from S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 1996-07-13 (www-html@w3.org from July 1996)

From: <S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 11:22:45 +0100 (BST)
To: megazone@livingston.com (MegaZone)
Cc: www-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <13207.9607131022@strachey.ecs.soton.ac.uk>

MegaZone wrote:
> 
> Not that I see this as something super desirablem but if you want to do it
> I suggest:
> 
> <IMG SRC="x" SRC="y" SRC="n-1" "SRC="n" PICK=RANDOM>
> 
> List the 'SRC' *FIRST* so that existing browsers will not break on it - 
> AFAIK current browsers will take the first SRC they see.  Since you can

Mine doesn't.  It reads each attribute, building a list of all the attributes.
Since it is building a linked list and adding the attributes backwards, the
*last* SRC attribute would take precedence when searching the list for that
attribute.

-- 
Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/      http://delenn.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

Received on Sunday, 14 July 1996 00:01:09 UTC