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And because of this, people were already predicting what would end up happening as a result of implementers rushing out features http://1997.webhistory.org/www
by seanalltogether 14y ago
And because of this, people were already predicting what would end up happening as a result of implementers rushing out features
http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0198.html http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0198.ht...
Wait a minute -- let's temporarily forget about MIME, if it clouds the
issue. My objection was to the discussion of "how are we going to
support embedded images" rather than "how are we going to support
embedded objections in various media".
Otherwise, next week someone is going to suggest 'lets put in a new
tag <AUD SRC="file://foobar.com/foo/bar/blargh.snd">' for audio.
There shouldn't be much cost in going with something that generalizes.
- gioele 14y agoThat thread also predicted the weird and unrealistic "let's-stay-inside-the-existing-boundaries" responses: > SGML does provide an official way of doing this folks and even if Dan C ain't here to round us up we maybe ought to stick to the track. > > <!ENTITY ICON6 SYSTEM "http://blah..>&ICON6 http://blah..>&ICON6; http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0202.html http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0202.ht...