- From: <hallam@axal04.cern.ch>
- Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 14:15:43 +0100
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Problem: When a document is composite (text & images) it is not nice to have to wait for the whole document to load before display, but until the size of the images is known this is tricky. Non-Solutions: 1) Opening up multiple TCP/IP sessions. This is a kludge. Solutions: 1) HTML+ allows the size of an image to be given in the text. We could imagine some sort of "intall" utility to set up such info. 2) Using MGET we could imagine sending a resume of the images (size etc) before starting the download. This could be sent in the message header "image/gif; width=200; height=300; colours=256". Again this would require some sort of install perhaps - or the server could be intelligent and "know" about gifs, jpegs etc. This is where I think that MGET is not quite enough, we would also need an MHEAD. I think that we need to enrich the content types to add in extra information also. Phill.
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