Re: Questions and comments

Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Wed, 25 Nov 92 18:54:03 -0800


Thomas A. Fine writes:
> Yes, MIME would be good. But would you make WWW pass around MIME
> documents only, with HTML being one of the Content-Types, or would
> you have http handle several different doc types, including both
> MIME and HTML?

What I'd like to see, based on what I know now, is 'text/html' become
a MIME content type and the WWW code retrofitted to handle MIME
documents as a base type. Then essentially a raw HTML document would
become the degenerate case for WWW (implicitly text/html).

It is important that other datatypes can be inlined in a document,
which is what MIME allows (as opposed to just allowing ordinary links
to GIF files, or something similar).

Marc

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Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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