Re: The Final Word On HTML (fwd)

Once upon a time Carl Morris shaped the electrons to say...
><OBJECT DATA="hello.png" TYPE="image/png">
>	<OBJECT DATA="hello.gif" TYPE="image/gif">
>		<P>Damn I tried to get you a graphic but my if-then construct says
>that if you don't support GIF or PNG I'll send you this text
>instead.</P>
>	</OBJECT>
></OBJECT>

It is still completely up to the browser to handle this.  This is like the
user input to a program, not the program itself.

Or, using the DB metaphor again, each level is like a DB entry, the browser
works along the entries until it finds one it can do.

This is DATA not programatic content.

HTML provides DATA that programs can process.

-MZ
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Received on Thursday, 26 September 1996 01:16:06 UTC