[9075] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: bad-idea-of-the-day: Inline data as URL scheme?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gavin Nicol)
Fri Sep 1 11:52:17 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:53:22 -0400
From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
To: connolly@beach.w3.org
Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199509011222.IAA32732@beach.w3.org> (connolly@beach.w3.org)
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Dan says:
>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).
I agree with (a) most emphatically, but (b) is false. I remember
testing the limits on many browsers about 7 months ago, and found
that all had limits (some smaller than 1024), and some even crashed
when the buffers overflowed. Does anyone have new information?
