coupla html+ possibilities
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 93 04:59:12 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-id: <9307040959.AA09910@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: coupla html+ possibilities
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Status: RO
(a) Built-in bitmaps for browsers that support inlined images.
<IMG SRC="internal-foo"> would refer to a specific built-in
bitmap, where "foo" could be something like one of...
leftarrow-small
rightarrow-small
leftarrow-large
rightarrow-large
uparrow-large
downarrow-large
uparrow-small
downarrow-small
checkmark-small
checkmark-large
skull-and-crossbones
stoplight
gopher-menu
gopher-image
gopher-sound
gopher-index
gopher-binary
gopher-telnet
gopher-web
These bitmaps would be known to be available to document authors,
and non-graphical clients could possibly use a textual supplement
(e.g. "[LEFT]" for leftarrow-large, etc.). The bitmaps wouldn't
need to necessarily look exactly the same from client to client.
(b) An optional parameter for <LI> to allow specification of a pointer
to an image to inline (rather than using a bullet or whatever).
This would let one do something like:
<UL>
<LI IMG="internal-gopher-menu"> A Gopher menu.
<LI IMG="internal-gopher-image"> A weathermap.
</UL>
... and then one would get a slick bitmap-enumerated list. Again,
text-based clients could substitute the normal list style or
textual equivalents (e.g., "[menu]" and "[image]").
Whaddaya think?
Marc