Return-Path: timbl@www3.cern.ch Delivery-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 08:18:14 -0500 Return-Path: timbl@www3.cern.ch Received: from dxmint.cern.ch by lns598.TN.CORNELL.EDU (5.65/LNS1.2) id AA03378; Fri, 26 Feb 93 08:18:13 -0500 Received: from nxoc01.cern.ch by dxmint.cern.ch (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3)id AA06090; Fri, 26 Feb 1993 14:09:47 +0100 Received: from dxmint.cern.ch by nxoc01.cern.ch (NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.52)/NeXT-2.0)id AA19490; Fri, 26 Feb 93 13:52:07 MET Received: from www3.cern.ch by dxmint.cern.ch (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3)id AA06070; Fri, 26 Feb 1993 14:09:21 +0100 Received: by www3.cern.ch (NX5.67c/NX3.0S)id AA05957; Fri, 26 Feb 93 14:04:55 +0100 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 14:04:55 +0100 From: Tim Berners-Lee Message-Id: <9302261304.AA05957@www3.cern.ch> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.87.1) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.87.1) To: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) Subject: Re: proposed new tag: IMG Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch Reply-To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch I had imagined that figues would be reprented as Figure where the relation ship values mean EMBED Embed this here when presenting it PRESENT Present this whenever the source document is presented Note that you can have various combinations of these, and if the browser doesn't support either one, it doesn't break. A see that using this as a method for selectable icons means nesting anchors. Hmmm. But I hadn't wanted a special tag. Annother way would be to declare an entity with SYSTEM attribute giving the URL and then invoke that entity, but that would mean an extendable entity dictionary which is not currently needed.