- From: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 12:20:42 +0100
- To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "Erik Dahlström" <ed@opera.com>, "Brad Kemper" <brkemper@comcast.net>, "Paul Nelson" <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com>, "Håkon Wium Lie" <howcome@opera.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
2008/5/3 David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>: > Dave Crossland wrote: > > > > 2008/5/2 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>: > >> > >> Similarly, the <embed> element in HTML embeds a resource > >> that is loaded by dereferencing an external URL. > >> I can't understand what "dereferencing an external URL" means, sorry :-( > > It means fetching the resource pointed to by that URL and embedding a > rendering of that resource in the rendered version of the referencing page, > as also done for image, rather than simply rendering a link to the resource. Okay, thanks for explaining; I understand this to be "displaying inline" but thats informal usage picked up from web designers I know. I think that is still "linking" in the terms of this discussion. http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#embedded1 defines "embedding" for the context of HTML5, and is also "linking" in terms of this discussion. -- Regards, Dave
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