Re: Questions and comments
Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Wed, 25 Nov 92 18:54:03 -0800
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 92 18:54:03 -0800
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-Id: <9211260254.AA00390@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: Thomas A. Fine <fine@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Questions and comments
In-Reply-To: <9211260043.AA26082@soccer.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Thomas A. Fine writes:
> Yes, MIME would be good. But would you make WWW pass around MIME
> documents only, with HTML being one of the Content-Types, or would
> you have http handle several different doc types, including both
> MIME and HTML?
What I'd like to see, based on what I know now, is 'text/html' become
a MIME content type and the WWW code retrofitted to handle MIME
documents as a base type. Then essentially a raw HTML document would
become the degenerate case for WWW (implicitly text/html).
It is important that other datatypes can be inlined in a document,
which is what MIME allows (as opposed to just allowing ordinary links
to GIF files, or something similar).
Marc
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Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu