Re: HTML 2.0 specification

"Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 94 15:02:58 EDT
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From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
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Subject: Re: HTML 2.0 specification 
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David: I forwarded your message to html-wg. Hope you don't mind.
Bill: I don't think David is on html-wg; hence he didn't get
your reply.

In message <m0qgdlC-00001MC@monolith>, wmperry@spry.com writes:
>David C. Martin writes:
>> We have implemented several features from HTML+ that we would like to
>> discuss having in the HTML 2.0 specification.  Specifically, we have
>> implemented the EMBED, GROUP and LINK elements.
>> 
>> Please let me know how we can participate in the discussion.
>
>  The emacs browser has had the EMBED and LINK tags for quite a while.  The
>LINK tag is in the HTML 2.0 spec.  It would be nice if the EMBED tag would
>be included.  The way I implemented it (ala an older HTML+ spec way back in
>'93) is as follows:
>
><embed TYPE="somecontent/type">
>data of somecontent/type
>would
>go
>here
>no wrapping/formatting
>should be done at all
></embed>
>
>  Something I added that wasn't in the HTML+ spec at the time was to add a
>SRC attribute similar to the <IMG> tag, so
>
><embed TYPE="somecontent/type" SRC="someurl">
>
>with no closing tag.
>
>-Bill P.