Useful icons or standard icons?

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From: neuss@igd.fhg.de
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 94 16:20:58 +0100
Message-id: <9401071520.AA00925@wildturkey.igd.fhg.de>
To: www-talk@www0.cern.ch
Subject: Useful icons or standard icons?
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Hiyall,

> The problem with "standardisation" is that
> 

>         a)      we don't really know what set of icons we want,  and
>         adding new ones or changing the graphics for a "standard" set
>         will be difficult;
Yip.. plus setting something like a standard will make it more difficult
to change things later on. But what if we just used an aditional attribute
describing the role of a URL as e.g. "folder icon", an have the browsers
decide whether of not they use builtin icons? 


Later,
Chris