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

Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com)
Fri, 08 Apr 1994 19:07:41 -0700


Larry Masinter said:

>>All a browser would have to do is detect that the link it is about to follow is
>>to an html file..

The above, in my previous message, wasn't my statement. It was Chris Lilley's
<C.C.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk> (I need to do better with attributions.)

>
>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.
>

Matt

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