Good idea, that's a very important hook. Can we end up making IMG just
a special case, or at least just an alias?
>The embedded data can
>be sent along with the main document using MIME's multipart capability.
Right, this will be significantly more efficient for some retrieval
mechanisms (especially when authentication and authorization is involved),
and a little nicer for servers to organize their documents.
How do you plan on doing this in HTML+? Sounds like the first part
will be text/html, where the anchors reference other parts. The reference
can be done by defining a URL access type of "part", e.g. HREF=part:XXX
where XXX is a Content-id.
>This approach also allows simple browsers to negotiate the format, so
>that the server can be asked to render equations into bitmaps etc.
This is somewhat in conflict with bundling as multiparts, since the
negotiation would need to be when asking for the compound document
(which is before the browser expects to get a specific obscure type).
Jay Weber
EIT