Re: OBJECT, inheritance, and rendering

At 8:29a -0700 08/04/98, David Perrell wrote:

>Repeating from 13.5 of the HTML 4.0 REC: "An embedded document is entirely
>independent of the document in which it is embedded...An embedded document
>is only rendered within another document (e.g., in a subwindow); it remains
>otherwise independent."

Could someone define what a "subwindow" is?

>Is a text/plain file a document? If so, it is rendered in a subwindow,
>entirely independent of the embedding document, and that subwindow will have
>its own default background. But non-documents must be treated differently,
>e.g.: for an image the background can be determined by the embedding
>document.

What is a non-document? Is a PDF file not a document? It sure isn't text...


-Walter