- From: Sjoerd Visscher <sjoerd@w3future.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:27:46 +0200
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: "www-html-editor@w3.org" <www-html-editor@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Dear HTML WG, > > Can the new 'xframes-URI-reference' be extended in such a way that it is > applicable to existing markup as well? The ability to tell what should > be loaded inside "frames" is by far the most useful feature of this new > draft and it could solve a lot of problems that exist on today's web if > it is made applicable to non-XFrames documents as well. For example, to > an OBJECT element in a text/html document or an IFRAME element. Or > xhtml:frame. I very much agree. The spec should also state that it is based on the XPointer Framework [1], and that "frames" is a pointer part that never identifies a subresource. By the way, the same idea as #frames() can be used for forms. See [2] for a (somewhat old) example. Greetings, Sjoerd [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/ [2] http://w3future.com/html/xmlrpcdebugger.html#form(url=http://w3future.com/tools/RPC/,methodName=validator1.countTheEntities,args='%3Ctest%3E') -- Sjoerd Visscher http://w3future.com/weblog/
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