- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 12:36:15 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
At 11:33a -0700 08/03/98, David Perrell wrote: >Todd Fahrner wrote: > >>This is precisely the potential application of OBJECT that prompted this >>whole thread. Chris Nelson (in a mozilla group) had been pressing the need >>for generic client-side inclusion, as robust as any of the many server-side >>techniques being used; I suggested OBJECT, and the rest is thread. > >Seems reasonable at first glance. So, if text/plain is inserted into an HTML >document via OBJECT, it then would be presented according to the style rules >at the point of insertion and could contain HTML markup that would be >honored? > >But if the purpose of OBJECT is to nest something independent of the >enclosing document within its own subwindow, then the text should be >rendered in the OBJECT window precisely the same way the UA would render the >text file were it not nested. To do otherwise would compromise the integrity >of OBJECT. > >A text/html OBJECT sized by default will be as deep as necessary to hold its >content, yes? So, client-side inclusions of text/html should be doable with >OBJECT as long as both including and included documents are authored with >this in mind. How about this. If the subdocument contains the html/head/title/body tags then it gets treated as an individual document, otherwise it's just a snippet and gets "flattened" into a client-side include. Umm, that'd be for *text* documents; binary would be another matter I suppose. -Walter
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