- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:18:48 -0400
- To: Doctor Vince <DrVince@spyring.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Doctor Vince wrote: > > this is an idea I had. Tought you would have like to hear it. The > problem rose from the fact that I wanted to send a document over a > newsgroup and since I only use HTML as text formatting, I used the MIME > type text/html. But the little pictures I wanted to add, had to be > somewhere on the net, revealing an address. So I tought of a new tag, > the <FOOT> container. In this tag, their could be any file encoded in > UU or base64 or, even better, using MIME. In the <img> tag, as an > example, the src could have a referal instead of an URI. This would > bring HTML to be an alternativeto PDF. There's no need to extend HTML. You can already do this with multipart MIME and Content-ID URLs; see <http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/rfc2111.txt>. You can also do it without MIME by using "data" URLs, though I suspect that browser support is better for multipart MIME and Content-ID. See <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2397.txt> for details on "data" URLs. -- Liam Quinn A Real Validator for Windows, http://arealvalidator.com Web Design Group, http://www.htmlhelp.com
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