Re: HTML Improvement/Suggestion

Jukka K. Korpela schreef:
> The type attribute, if used to express the Internet media type (MIME 
> type), reflects a wrong approach. The media type is to be known and 
> announced by the server that delivers the object. The embedding 
> document should just reserve space for the object (and contain 
> fallback content to
> be presented when the object is not available)

Afaik, the type attribute (or whatever its name may be) in this case 
means to indicate what types it accepts. So supposedly <object 
src="bla.html" type="image/*">fallback content</object> would result in 
the fallback content being shown, unless the server associates the .html 
extension with an image/ type.


~Grauw

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Received on Monday, 12 December 2005 23:07:26 UTC