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created_at: '2012-09-26T06:52:23.000Z'
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title: 'Proposed new HTML tag: IMG (1993)'
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url: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html
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author: wamatt
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2018-02-23 18:19:40 +00:00
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[Source](http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html "Permalink to WWW-Talk Jan-Mar 1993: proposed new tag: IMG")
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# WWW-Talk Jan-Mar 1993: proposed new tag: IMG
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WWW-Talk Jan-Mar 1993: proposed new tag: IMG
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# proposed new tag: IMG
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Marc Andreessen (_marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu_)
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_Thu, 25 Feb 93 21:09:02 -0800_
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* **Messages sorted by:** [[ date ]][1][[ thread ]][2][[ subject ]][3][[ author ]][4]
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* **Next message:** [Tony Johnson: "Re: proposed new tag: IMG"][5]
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* **Previous message:** [Bill Janssen: "Re: xmosaic experience"][6]
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* **Next in thread:** [Tony Johnson: "Re: proposed new tag: IMG"][5]
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* * *
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I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag:
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IMG
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Required argument is SRC="http://1997.webhistory.org/url".
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This names a bitmap or pixmap file for the browser to attempt to pull
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over the network and interpret as an image, to be embedded in the text
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at the point of the tag's occurrence.
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An example is:
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<IMG SRC=""file://foobar.com/foo/bar/blargh.xbm">file://foobar.com/foo/bar/blargh.xbm">
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(There is no closing tag; this is just a standalone tag.)
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This tag can be embedded in an anchor like anything else; when that
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happens, it becomes an icon that's sensitive to activation just like a
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regular text anchor.
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Browsers should be afforded flexibility as to which image formats they
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support. Xbm and Xpm are good ones to support, for example. If a
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browser cannot interpret a given format, it can do whatever it wants
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instead (X Mosaic will pop up a default bitmap as a placeholder).
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This is required functionality for X Mosaic; we have this working, and
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we'll at least be using it internally. I'm certainly open to
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suggestions as to how this should be handled within HTML; if you have
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a better idea than what I'm presenting now, please let me know. I
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know this is hazy wrt image format, but I don't see an alternative
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than to just say ``let the browser do what it can'' and wait for the
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perfect solution to come along (MIME, someday, maybe).
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Let me know what you think.........
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Cheers,
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Marc
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Marc Andreessen
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Software Development Group
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National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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* * *
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* **Next message:** [Tony Johnson: "Re: proposed new tag: IMG"][5]
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* **Previous message:** [Bill Janssen: "Re: xmosaic experience"][6]
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* **Next in thread:** [Tony Johnson: "Re: proposed new tag: IMG"][5]
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[1]: http://1997.webhistory.org/date.html#182
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[2]: http://1997.webhistory.org/index.html#182
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[3]: http://1997.webhistory.org/subject.html#182
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[4]: http://1997.webhistory.org/author.html#182
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[5]: http://1997.webhistory.org/0183.html
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[6]: http://1997.webhistory.org/0181.html
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