Re: proposed new tag: IMG

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From: Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Message-id: <9303010929.AA12454@manuel.hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: proposed new tag: IMG
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 9:29:50 GMT
Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.36.1.1]

> While images are at the top of my list of desired medium types in a
> WWW browser, I don't think we should add idiosyncratic hooks for media
> one at a time.  Whatever happened to the enthusiasm for using the
> MIME typing mechanism?  I made a concrete proposal a few months ago,
> where HREFs can point to other parts in a MIME multipart (and thereby
> to an "external-body"), and I've seen a similar idea recently regarding
> embedding media clips in a "simplemail" format.  Don't we want to
> take on something like this in HTML2?

True indeed! I want to consider a whole range of possible image/line art
types, along with the possibility of format negotiation. Tim's note
on supporting clickable areas within images is also important

Dave Raggett, HPLabs