link styling using MIME types

An idea born out of an interesting discussion over at the SitePoint forums. Using the often neglected type attribute, MIME types and some CSS2, links can be styled quite easily (if we forget for a second that IE has no clue about how to deal with the styling).

So, why not simply use a class for this? Because this way we're including a standardised chunk of useful information to the links themselves, which could theoretically be used by browsers in some meaningful manner...in a distant, standards-compliant future perhaps.

completed:

13/06/2004

modified:

23/06/2004