Re: Some Comments on the RFCs

Jim Hamerly (jim@pages.com)
Thu, 16 Feb 95 14:58:19 -0800


> > RFC#1:
> > When opening a file, add the types ".html3" and ".htmld" to the
> > open-panel. When you get a request to open a .htmld, tack on an
> > "index.html". Icons for both of these have been chosen by the
list and
> > are available from the archive. [html3 will be the html icon with
> > a Next futura font "3" in the upper right, or ITC Typewriter]
> >
>
> What is ".html3"? I haven't seen any reference to that before.
> Is a special extension needed for HTML 3.0 compliant documents?
>

> Good point. Does anyone out there know for sure how future
> deployment of html3 source will go out on the net? For now it's
> text/x-html-3 or something like that; will there be an <HTML3> tag?
> My concern is whether there should be some tag attached to a file
> that's visible to a user (like a clear .html3 extension). Of
> course, this line of reasoning would lead to .html3d documents too,
> and that might tread on the balliwick of the VRML folks :-)

Since browsers are supposed to be backwards-compatable, I don't think
we want to distinguish between HTML 2.0 and 3.0 (or 1.0 or 4.0...,
for that matter) via a separate filetype, do we? I believe it should
be sufficient to use the 3.0 doctype header.

-- Jim