Re: Multipart/mixed for many inline images (was Re: Toward Closure on HTML)

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Subject: Re: Multipart/mixed for many inline images (was Re: Toward Closure on HTML) 
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>All a browser would have to do is detect that the link it is about to follow is 
>to an html file..


This isn't possible currently: links are not, in general, typed. You
can't tell, looking at the link, whether it is image, text, audio,
video, an equation, or a Macintosh program.