Re: proposed new tag: IMG

• Mail folder: WWW Talk Jan-Mar 1993 Archives
• Next message: Marc Andreessen: "Re: proposed new tag: IMG"
• Previous message: Marc Andreessen: "re: xmosaic experience"
• In-reply-to: Jim Davis: "Re: proposed new tag: IMG"
• References: Jim Davis: "Re: proposed new tag: IMG"

Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 13:29:45 -0800
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-id: <9302262129.AA28982@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: Jim Davis <davis@dri.cornell.edu>
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: proposed new tag: IMG
In-reply-to: <199302261507.AA14775@willow.tc.cornell.edu>
References: <199302261507.AA14775@willow.tc.cornell.edu>
X-Md4-Signature: e73cd9798efdf106e96d6611888d2999

Jim Davis writes:
> As for specifics of Marc A's proposal, two comments
> 
> 1) why have SRC instead of HREF?

Because I wanted to avoid overloading HREF -- doesn't really make
sense in this context, I don't think.

> 2) It would be nice if there was a way to specify the content type,
> e.g. 
> 
> <IMG HREF="http://nsa.gov/pub/sounds/gorby.au" CONTENT-TYPE=audio/basic>
> 
> But I am completely willing to live with the requirement that I specify
> the content type by file extension.  It's good enough for me.

Actually, in Mosaic this will be possible by doing something like:

<A HREF="http://nsa.gov/pub/sounds/gorby.au"><IMG SRC="myimage.xbm></A>

Simple.....

Marc