On Sun, 31 Aug 1997 lee@sq.com wrote: > <OBJECT PI-FONT="Bundesbahn" GLYPH-IDENTIFIER="47">Alt Gif goes here</OBJECT> > In SGML or XML, one might want to hide this behind an entity, like this: > <!Entity Bundesbahn %SDATA; > '<glyph font="Bundesbahn" name="spielnzeitt" id="47">[no fun]</glyph>' > > > where the "no fun" is the text to use if the font isn't available. That's okay for full-fledged SGML browsers, but the average HTML browser will have difficulties with %SDATA. > I have no idea at all why you prefer OBJECT. I don't mean that in a > derogatory way. Why is OBJECT the preferred approach? > If it's just an image, surely IMG would be better? IMG is being deprecated, slowly but surely. One problem is that it doesn't have content. With OBJECT, you can have the [no fun] part, but not with IMG. Regards, Martin.Received on Sunday, 31 August 1997 09:41:40 GMT
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