Re: Tar Browsing

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, its me wrote:

> Now this would be implemented by adding an attribute to the "<img>" tag and 
> having the browser support the tar file format in some fashion.  This new 
> attribute will be called "archive" and will point to the archvive and the 
> file name inside the archive. For example:
> 
> <img archive="template.tar file-in-template.jpeg>

This has already been done with the object element. tar may not be the
best choice, as there are several ever-so-slightly incompatible versions,
which will mostly cooperate nicely, but will sometimes bring inconvenient
surprises.

What about using MIME multipart messages? One could either use the
cid: URI scheme in the data attribute, or for backwards compatibility
provide usable http: URIs, identified with body parts by Content-Location
headers.


Tim Bagot