- From: Arnoud <galactus@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 19:32:33 +0100
- To: www-talk@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199611220823.DAA25456@nemesis.idirect.com>, dank@idirect.com (Dan Kolis) wrote: > <img src="redball.gif"> could be <img src="redball.gif" > absobject=1215231341555671> I assume you're talking about references on two different servers, otherwise the browser can just compare the full URL of both images and see that they're pointing to the same resource. But I do not understand why you would have to use an ID. A far better solution would be a checksum. This would especially help with popular "stolen" or widely used images, even if they're on different servers. The now-expired HTML 3.0 draft proposed the MD attribute, which can be used for exactly this purpose. > If this is possible now, why isn't it done, I wonder? Beats me. You'd think that a company who says "Netscape remains committed to supporting HTML 3.0. [...] We believe that Netscape Navigator 2.0 supports more of the HTML 3.0 specifications than any other commercial client." [0] would be able to implement the almost trivial MD attribute on anchors and inline images. Galactus [0] http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/html_extensions_3.html - -- E-mail: galactus@htmlhelp.com .................... PGP Key: 512/63B0E665 Maintainer of WDG's HTML reference: <http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/> -----END PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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