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- :a 27-Apr-93 Standardizing new HTML feat.. Dave_Raggett@hplb.hpl.hp (1221)
-
- > o embedded images with text flow etc.
-
- It would be particularly nice if we got this right. There was an
- exchange a couple of months ago (beginning of March) that you (Dave)
- were a part of, about allowing arbitrary embedded ``things'', with their
- data being either specified in-line, or being included from another
- document. These things could be images or animations or audio or text
- or whatever. Marc mentioned several problems to be solved (I remember
- circular references, for example).
-
- Separable from this is another good idea:
-
- :a 1-Mar-93 Re: proposed new tag: IMG Marc Andreessen@ncsa.uiu (884)
-
- > maybe we should think about a general-purpose procedural
- > graphics language within which we can embed arbitrary hyperlinks
- > attached to icons, images, or text, or anything. Has anyone else seen
- > Intermedia's capabilities wrt this? It's one of their most impressive
- > capabilities, actually.
-
- > Something like a cross between PostScript and CGM might work...
- > actually, maybe we should just use one or the other, and add the
- > extensions we need for the links. Also we'd want to make sure that
- it's completely editable.
-
- Sounds like a good thing. I've always been sort of surprised that TIFF
- or another of these extensible image formats hasn't already been
- extended to be a ``hyperimage'' format.
-
- Bill
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-