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Re: bad-idea-of-the-day: Inline data as URL scheme?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel W. Connolly)
Fri Sep 1 08:23:57 1995

To: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Sep 1995 00:57:35 EDT."
             <199509010457.AAA01860@ebt-inc.ebt.com> 
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 08:22:15 -0400
From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org

In message <199509010457.AAA01860@ebt-inc.ebt.com>, Gavin Nicol writes:
>We have a limit on the length of attributes in HTML. The 
>images would have to be very small.

Er... this limit is (a) not a good idea, (b) not enforced except
in things like SGMLS. I think it should go away (or become 999999,
at least).

Dan


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