General IMG tag

How about extending the IMG semantics to handle other (non-image) types:

	<img src="http://www.xyz.com/the-webmaster.gif">
	<img src="http://www.xyz.com/standard-copyright-notice.txt">
	<img src="http://www.xyz.com/standard-footer.html">
	<img src="http://www.xyz.com/cgi-bin/something">

The object would then be 'imaged';

	a GIF is currently imaged as a bit mapped picture,
	text would be imaged as characters,
	HTML would be integrated into the enclosing HTML
	etc.

This is just a unification - any valid MIME type could be 'imaged' in-line.

What we want is in fact a general way for helper applications (viewers) to
present their output within the parent document itself, rather than in an
external window. (Oh no - I think I just proposed a generic OLE!)

/Ian Higgs

Received on Friday, 28 April 1995 15:55:02 UTC