About "dereferencing"

• From: Michele Diodati <md4223@mclink.it>
• Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:07:31 +0100
• To: w3c-translators@w3.org
• Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980312110731.006a831c@mclink.it>

Dear translators,

in our translation of HTML 4.0 into Italian we are experimenting some
difficulties about the following paragraph:

|line 418 - file: "links.html"
|
|type = content-type [CI]
|     When present, this attribute specifies the content type of a piece of
|content, for example, the result of dereferencing a
|     resource. Content types are defined in [MIMETYPES].

Can you explain in other words this sentence: "the result of dereferencing
a resource"? What does "dereferencing" mean?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Michele Diodati - Liber Liber (http://www.liberliber.it)

Received on Thursday, 12 March 1998 05:06:58 UTC