Re: HTML Streaming
Peter Flynn (pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie)
29 Aug 1997 20:30:03 +0100
Date: 29 Aug 1997 20:30:03 +0100
From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-id: <199708291930.UAA19388@imbolc.ucc.ie>
Subject: Re: HTML Streaming
Albert writes:
>I have never heard of a bot that truncates a HTML file at the download of
>the keyword tag.
I don't think any of the big public indexes do that but several small
in-house ones do, where the use of META with Keywords is enforced.
>DTD. The entire language would need to be reviewed to allow each tag to
>stream.
I think what I don't understand is what needs to be done to it. What do
you have to do to <P> to "make it stream". By streaming, do you mean
constant refreshing of the data? The term is usually used wrt realtime
data like audio or video, not serial data like text.
>Frankly, I don't think it is that big of a problem. I think the HTML
>file can be streamed with the addition of tags that give a description of
>the HTML file. The colgroup and other individual descriptions meant to
>stream an individual tag would not be required. I don't think protocols for
>the organization of tags, in the head or body, would do as much harm as you
>imply.
I didn't mean to imply they'd do any harm, just I still don't understand
what you need to do to the file structure. Can you give examples of what
you'd need to add to make it stream?
///Peter