On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Larry Masinter wrote:
If you want to extract HTML from the web and send it along in mail,
you should note that many embedded URLs are relative, not absolute.
Your 'content-location:' proposal makes less sense when the URL is
relative. Also, if you want to embed a VRML document inside a HTML
image, and the VRML document has embedded URLs too, you might not want
to nest them, and if they're not nested, the content-location doesn't
give enough context to rename the URLs in the first part.
You claim for: "New notation using Content-Location" that
"The user can manually save the Text/HTML content in a file, and open
and view it with an ordinary Web browser." but this isn't any more the
case for your new notation than the old, except when the URLs point
with absolute links to resources that are externally available.
You are right. The embedded URL cannot be relative.
Note however that a person who sends a message containing HTML is
probably a person who uses a mail system which is quite capable,
so that system can ensure that the embedded URLS are not relative.
A person who receives a messages containing HTML may however often
be a person with a very limited mail system, which may have no
understanding at all of the Text/HTML Content-Type. The intention
with my solution was that even such recipients should be able
to read the HTML part, by saving it in a file, and opening it
with any ordinary Web browser.
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Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme