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Re: Standard icons

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lilley)
Wed Nov 29 21:06:22 1995

From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
To: sirrah@cg57.esnet.com (Stuart Harris)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 01:53:04 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: jim@digitalstyle.com, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <m0tKwp7-0000sMC@cg57.esnet.com> from "Stuart Harris" at Nov 29, 95 04:25:59 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org


> http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html/icons.txt

Notice that this ack's Kevin Hughes, whose icons are used 
in the Apache browser among others.

> Hands up those who already knew that Netscape will 
> display a built-in icon if you evoke, let's say,
> 
>   <IMG SRC="internal-gopher-movie">

Hands up those who know it inherits those names from X Mosaic! (grins)

Hands up who used those names in an HTML file dated October 1993 ;-) (smug)

Hands up who didn't know at the time this was browser dependent? (blush)

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