Re: Inline macros
erik (erik@inch.com)
Mon, 06 May 1996 11:14:44 -0400
Message-Id: <318E1764.7F53@inch.com>
Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 11:14:44 -0400
From: erik <erik@inch.com>
To: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: www-html@w3.org
Subject: Re: Inline macros
Paul Prescod wrote:
>
> At 08:00 PM 4/25/96 -0400, Michael Seaton wrote:
> >Could this be done with multipart/mixed?
>
> I like this idea.
>
> I would suggest we work from
>
> ftp://ftp.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mime
sgml-encap-0
>
> "This document describes an encapsulation of a Standard
> Generalized Markup Language (SGML) document within a MIME
> message. The document may be represented in the message by
> some or all of its components. The MIME message may also
> include auxiliary information to be used by the recipient in
> processing the encapsulated SGML. This document proposes a
> new content sub-type Application/SGML-notation, and a new
> header, Content-SGML-Entity."
You are right....Web browsers should be multipart document
readers...not just HTML readers... Nescape already does this in
their MAIL viewer.
IE: the primary section of the MIME document could be the
HTML....(which most MIME readers will display by default)
And the HTML document should be able to refer to the other MIME
sections as HREF targets...So a single document can contain code
and images, etc.
Of course adding multisectioned documents to the HTML
specification wouldn't hurt.
(The more important concept is allowing true context-sensitive
lexing in HTML. The parser must reconfigure itself for each new
section of a document, relying on section headers or DTD's
before continuing the parse. Only in this way can HTML grow and
become an all-encompassing document specification...allowing
people to define new languages and new uses for the Web - while
maintaining document integrity.)