Andreas Prilop wrote:

> Is there any *practical* use of writing, say,
>
> <a href="book.pdf" type="application/pdf">
>
> with a TYPE attribute?

Not much, but in addition to potential use in styling (with attribute
selectors, not supported by IE 6), they might be used for site management
e.g. to find all links to PDF files. Of course this requires software that
pays attention to such attributes.

Moreover, on Firefox and relatives, if the user right-clicks on a link and
selects "Properties", he will see information about the media type.

So not much, really.

Yucca