- From: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-html-0001@earth.li>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:56:40 +0000 (UTC)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, its me wrote: > Now this would be implemented by adding an attribute to the "<img>" tag and > having the browser support the tar file format in some fashion. This new > attribute will be called "archive" and will point to the archvive and the > file name inside the archive. For example: > > <img archive="template.tar file-in-template.jpeg> This has already been done with the object element. tar may not be the best choice, as there are several ever-so-slightly incompatible versions, which will mostly cooperate nicely, but will sometimes bring inconvenient surprises. What about using MIME multipart messages? One could either use the cid: URI scheme in the data attribute, or for backwards compatibility provide usable http: URIs, identified with body parts by Content-Location headers. Tim Bagot
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