- From: Marc Salomon <marc@pele.ckm.ucsf.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 08:46:57 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
1. Unlike elements, where order is preserved, I do not believe that an SGML parser must return attributes parsed as to order. 2. SGML doesn't allow multiple occurrences of the same attribute in an element. I.e., you can't do <A HREF="1" HREF="2">. 3. The HTTP/1.1 spec has facilities for specifying alternate representations, but these only work if you can contact a server/proxy that knows such info. A more robust design would include a mechanism for authors to specify alternative content locations in the document for content that might reside on different servers. 4. Overloading ALT is problematic. I had suggested that a convention of space-separated URI's in an HREF (or SRC) like: <A HREF="1 2 3"> eenie meenie minie </A> might work, but only for short URI's. This doesn't break current implementations (they retrieve URI 1), but can look ugly in the URI box. -marc
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