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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terry Allen)
Fri Sep 1 10:28:50 1995

From: "Terry Allen" <terry@ora.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 07:26:28 -0700
In-Reply-To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
        "Re: bad-idea-of-the-day: Inline data as URL scheme?" (Aug 31, 10:03pm)
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, gtn@ebt.com, www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org

Re elements vs attributes:  Gavin's right; you don't want the limit
on att length applied.

Re < / > & in the content:  the only good solution is CDATA marked
sections, which most people dislike variously.

Re the whole idea:  unneeded, doesn't obviously achieve much.

Regards,

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