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Re: Embedding of Mime parts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Thu Jan 19 20:41:45 1995

Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 01:44:48 +0100
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From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
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On Thu, 19 Jan 1995, Daniel W. Connolly wrote:
> It would make sense, though, if I could represent a hypertext document
> as two separate entities: the content, and the links.  The content
> could be in any format I choose, and the links would be
> independent. Several of TimBL's writings on WWW refer to HTML as just
> one data format among many that the web architecture could support. The
> problem is that HTML is the only data format that can represent links.

That's apparently the philosophy behind Hyper-G (well, one of many).  
The demo I tried out had a modified MPEG browser supporting links from 
regions of the movie to other objects... anyways, there's lots of other 
interesting ideas there.  http://www.tu-graz.ac.at/

	Brian

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