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Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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Date: 
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 17:11:11 GMT
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
The IMG tag was implemented first, and _then_ codified into RFC
status. [snip]

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. :)

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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  Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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