On Jan 26, 2005, at 22:46, Tim Bray wrote:
With type='TEXT' you know it's not going to contain any (X)HTML formatting, so you don't have to invoke your (X)HTML renderer. -Tim
Newbie question:
Why is "type" not a MIME type already? As in an anchor tag for example?
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#adef-type-A
I'm sure there must be a very valid reason for such unfortunate discrepancy, but at first glance I cannot see it:
3.1.1 "type" Attribute
Note that MIME media types [RFC2045] are not acceptable values for the "type" attribute.
3.5.2 "type" Attribute
Link constructs MAY have a type attribute, whose value MUST conform to the syntax of a MIME media type [RFC2045].
Cheers
-- PA http://alt.textdrive.com/
