Re: HTML icon set was: Additions to the CGI archive

Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>

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From: Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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Subject: Re: HTML icon set was: Additions to the CGI archive
To: bert@let.rug.nl
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 10:49:23 GMT
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> My suggestion: create a set of entities (&file;, &folder;, etc.) like
> the set that already exists for accented characters (&eacute;, &euml;,
> etc.). If we agree on this, maybe Dave Raggett could add such a list
> to the HTML+ draft?

> Browser developers are then free to display those entities in whatever
> way they like. Either as an "ASCII graphic", a bitmap, or a character
> from a special symbols font.

> Btw. ISO is standardizing the names and approximate look of a small
> set of "desktop" icons. I don't have the drafts here at home, but we
> should definitely use their names.

Sounds good to me. Bert, can you mail me some info on the ISO "icons".
It would be a shame to invent our own entity names when official ISO
names exist already.

Dave