- From: MURATA Makoto <murata.makoto@fujixerox.co.jp>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 11:56:32 +0900
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: timbl@w3.org, simonstl@simonstl.com, ietf-xml-mime@imc.org, Tsmith@parc.xerox.com, xsl-editors@w3.org, masinter@parc.xerox.com
James Clark wrote: > I'm not convinced there is an inconsistency here. The style element in > HTML has a required type attribute. Does that imply elements have MIME > types? I don't think so. It's just (ab)using MIME types as identifiers > for stylesheet languages. I personally think that this is an abuse and should be stopped. > An alternative view is that the type > pseudo-attribute on the PI is giving the MIME type of the complete > resource, as an optimization to allow the resource not to be fetched if > the MIME type cannot be handled. On either view I don't see an > inconsistency. This is one interpretation of the type (pseudo) attribute. We need some clarification. I would like to hear opinions of the editors of HTML. Cheers, Makoto Fuji Xerox Information Systems Tel: +81-44-812-7230 Fax: +81-44-812-7231 E-mail: murata.makoto@fujixerox.co.jp
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