Re: W3C Working Draft: HTML predefined icon-like symbols

   From: "T. Joseph W. Lazio" <lazio@spacenet.tn.cornell.edu>

|    Both &binhex.document; and &uuencoded.document; are defined.  Is
|   there a reason not to have a more general description, like
|   &encoded.document;?  I can see at least one pro and con: ...
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Yes, it would definitely be useful to have a generic &encoded.document,
for the reason you cite - there will always be new encodings.  On the
other hand, it is definitely also useful to have specific icons for
common existing encodings.  They're not mutually exclusive; we should
have both.

scott

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Received on Friday, 12 January 1996 14:31:16 UTC