Re: HTML+ Addition

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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1993 19:11:54 +0100
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From: roeber@vxcrna.cern.ch (Frederick G.M. Roeber)
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>Another idea is prefetching (probably requires about the same support):
>Have the server return more than was asked of it, since the server
>'knows' that the next request is going to be another small inlined image.
>The client would cache the 'extra' data. This can clearly lead to
>some problems; maybe the client should indicate something like "don't
>send me more than 20 kB of prefetch stuff". This would make clients
>very responsive after a slightly longer startup phase.

How about making the document a "multipart/hyper" (well, ../x-hyper for now)
type, where the first part (of type "text/html") is the initial text, and
contains links to the later parts (e.g., of type "image/gif" suitably encoded)?

Then there'll just be the one document fetch; it will automatically work for 
news:, it'll be easier to do servers which generate inlined images on-the-fly,
and more.
--
<a href="http://info.cern.ch/roeber/fgmr.html">Frederick.</a>