Multipart response support

• From: Henrik Dvergsdal <henrik.dvergsdal@hibo.no>
• Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:12:35 +0200
• To: public-html@w3.org
• Message-Id: <0839FB01-C3B6-4C01-9B80-C76520CD3513@hibo.no>

I think we should consider including support for multipart responses  
in HTML. Among other things this would provide:

- easy preloading of critical components without using JavaScript

- improved digital rights management of images etc. without using  
flash or other plug-ins. (No need to make such resources directly  
accessible on the internet.)

- a mechanism for hiding scripts and stylesheets from (average) users.

Syntacticaly I think it would involve only a tiny change in the  
specification. We only need to extend src-attributes etc. to accept  
references to internal attachments instead of just URL's.

--
Henrik

Received on Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:12:52 UTC