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- > Here's the form for registering 'text/html' partly filled in, from RFC
- > 1341.
-
- > I don't think this needs a ton of work, just to fill in a few of the
- > references. As we get some operations experience with it (and some
- > applications support!) I could imagine putting more frobs on it. Not
- > yet tho.
-
- OK, good idea. Here is a 2nd draft. I have changed:
-
- We restrict it to 7 bit, any 8 bit use is cheating and causes unpredictable
- things to happen. SGML provides for funny character encoding like é and
- things. We could also make the base character set a parameter (for the Fins).
-
- Should we put a limit on line length? Do we need one to prevent an
- encoding system from being mandatory for all HTML documents?
-
- I have put a ref to the HTML spec rather than the HTTP spec. I'll
- upgrade that to include the DTD and make it more RFCish (70 characters wide and
- stuff ;-)
-
- _______________________________________________________
- To: IANA@isi.edu
- Subject: Registration of new MIME content-type/subtype text/html
-
- MIME type name:
-
- text
- MIME subtype name:
-
- html
- Required parameters:
-
- none
- Optional parameters:
-
- left open for future study.
-
-
- Any additional parameters should match up with existing HTML
- constructs, so that e.g. the parameter
- title="Making links in the web"
- would be functionally equivalent to an HTML preamble of
- <title>Making links in the web</title>
- Encoding considerations:
-
- HTML text should be restricted to ASCII printable characters
- unless an extended character set is specfified in an
- optioinal parameter (subject for future study). There is no
- limit on line length.
-
- Security considerations:
-
- HTML documents may contain embedded information used to
-
- instruct browsers and viewers to execute queries on remote
- databases. Some HTML browsers have included support for
- embedded command languages. Such facilities should be used
- with care.
-
- Published specification:
-
- "Hypertext Markup Language", Tim Berners-Lee, CERN, 1992.
-
- available as http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html
- or as by anonymous FTP from ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/doc/www/html.txt
-
- See also:
-
- "The HTTP Protocol as Implemented in W3", avaiable for
- anonymous ftp from ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/doc/www/http.txt.
-
- Describes the HTTP interactive access protocol and the tags used
- in HTML documents.
-
- "The WWW Book", from
- ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/doc/the_www_book.txt.
-
- "Universal Document Identifiers on the Network", OSI-DS-XXX,
- available by anonymous FTP from
- ftp://info.cern.ch/info.cern.ch/pub/www/doc/url3.{txt,ps}.
-
- Person & email address to contact for further information:
-
- Tim Berners-Lee, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
- timbl@info.cern.ch
-
-
-