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Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:04:29 GMT
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On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:47:44 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
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> PS: why does HTML just have the IMG tag? Why not have the EMBED tag let you
> _embed anything_ arbitrarily? Like, another HTML document?
Because Netscape designers and programmers of the first hour were
utterly clueless.
The IMG tag was implemented first, and _then_ codified into RFC
status. There was at the same time another type of tag for embedding
everything in the works at RFC headquarters. <a embed="bla"></a>,
IIRC.
Jasper
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| (...) Of course. _Most_ Internet standards work this way. The initial standards documents are often descriptions of current in-use procedures. Or at least, a synthesis of such. But yeah, that doesn't mean they weren't shortsighted. :) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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