- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 09:28:22 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
On Thursday 09 January 2003 07:59 am, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > Just throwing something out: Would it be A. Useful? and B. possible? > to add additional attributes to linking elements to specify the MIME > type required? e.g. > > <a href="foo/" type="text/plain">foo</a> > <img src="http://maps.yahoo.com/map?zip=10003" type="image/svg+xml" /> > > and perhaps for language as well: > > <a href="foo/" type="text/plain" lang="en-US; en-CA; en-GB; fr-FR">foo</a> In a roundabout way, that is what I was proposing as one solution: some means to provide more information in the places that use URI's. Of course, things like ENTITY declarations become somewhat tricky... but I guess this might be one more reason for XInclude...
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