HTML Standard

guenther.fischer@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de (Guenther Fischer)

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From: guenther.fischer@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de (Guenther Fischer)
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Subject: HTML Standard
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 16:45:57 +0100 (MET)
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To the www gurus:

I see some nive icons in Mosaic (inlined icons), but have no way to refer
to them from my documents. I mean such as for ftp or gopher URLs.

It would save much traffic over the lines if we could have a
standard set of icons on the client site I could refer from the server site
(I will say from the documents on a server).

My vote:

<IMG SRC=/INLINE/icon01.gif>

The path component INLINE is reserved to be interpreted by the clients.
If client found INLINE the next component is interpreted as one of
a welldefined set of icons - nothing to transfer.

If the client hasn't this feature he could transfer as till now. 
Because of that the server should have these "Standard-Icons" in the
INLINE directory too.

Could this be a area of standardization? - It would be so nice.

It could also help to get a "real" WWW look and feel ...

	~Guenther
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Name:      Guenther Fischer
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