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To: gtn@ebt.com Cc: www-talk@w3.org In-Reply-To: Gavin Nicol's message of Thu, 31 Aug 1995 21:57:35 -0700 <199509010457.AAA01860@ebt-inc.ebt.com> From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 22:03:38 PDT Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org > We have a limit on the length of attributes in HTML. The > images would have to be very small. Yes, this isn't really for images. It's useful for little bits of text, footnotes, references, and odd media types that really just are the parameters for helper apps. It makes no sense to support this without also supporting the fuller multipart/related and cid: mechanism for included references to larger data. One of the primary applications for 'data:' is for dealing with supplying the parameters for another helper app, in the same way that 'telnet://host.dom/' on the Mac actually winds up creating a little parameter file (application/x-telnet-parameters) which is then interpreted with the telnet application. If it were possible to configure browsers to deal with local URL schemes in the same way, this might not be necessary; you'd just define a new URL scheme for each media type that you wanted.
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