> I don't want to change HTML now if I can help it, until it has gone to RFC track
I absolutely agree in all cases -- my purpose in suggesting IMG is that things are reaching the point where some browsers are going to be implementing this feature somehow, even if it's not standard, just because it's the logical next step, and it would be great to have consistency from the beginning -- so that when HTML2 comes along, we're all still in lockstep.....
Wait a minute -- let's temporarily forget about MIME, if it clouds the
issue. My objection was to the discussion of "how are we going to
support embedded images" rather than "how are we going to support
embedded objections in various media".
Otherwise, next week someone is going to suggest 'lets put in a new
tag <AUD SRC="file://foobar.com/foo/bar/blargh.snd">' for audio.
There shouldn't be much cost in going with something that generalizes.
That thread also predicted the weird and unrealistic "let's-stay-inside-the-existing-boundaries" responses:
> SGML does provide an official way of doing this folks
and even if Dan C ain't here to round us up we maybe
ought to stick to the track.
>
> <!ENTITY ICON6 SYSTEM "http://blah..>&ICON6;
«Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Fri, 26 Feb 93 13:32:09 -0800
Tim Berners-Lee writes:
> I don't want to change HTML now if I can help it, until it has gone to RFC track
I absolutely agree in all cases -- my purpose in suggesting IMG is that things are reaching the point where some browsers are going to be implementing this feature somehow, even if it's not standard, just because it's the logical next step, and it would be great to have consistency from the beginning -- so that when HTML2 comes along, we're all still in lockstep.....
Cheers, Marc»
http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0197.ht...
The HTML 5 designers/implementers fight has always been there, with implementers usually having the last word.
Mark Pilgrim on how much the WHATWG resembles the HTML 2 working group activity: http://web.archive.org/web/20110710091457/http://diveintomar...