- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:19:47 GMT
- To: annevk@opera.com
- CC: public-cdf@w3.org
Anne, Am I correct to assume that was a personal response, not the official CDF WG response to the last call comment? > This is entirely delegated to CSS which defines exactly what should happen > for replaced elements. It is entirely within the remit of the CDF group to specify how the compound document, once assembled by reference, is exposed to CSS (or anything else). Plugins for netscape 4 era browsers designed to support compound documents have API calls to expose the natural height depth and width of the fragment, so allowing the size to be set (typically in that era, by just document.write-ing a modified object or embed tag). At the very least, anything aiming to be a "compound document framework" must standardise the essential feature of setting the size. Even so having to make explicit calls in script to modify the object tag is of course rather a poor version of CDF support compared with the rather more natural, automatic resizing on elements from "foreign" namespaces as has been available in IE since 5.5 and mozilla since 0.9.something (that is for years), so given that this is 2006 not 1996, one would have hoped for rather more than a set of calls to allow size determination. To have not _even_ that is rather shocking, to be honest. If the intention is to develop a framework for making very simple documents on very constrained devices, then fine, there is nothing wrong with that, but don't call it a "compound document framework" as the suggestion that a system which implements just the features suggested by this framework is capable of rendering a compound document of any complexity is completely misleading. > I suggest the Math IG raises its issues with the CSS WG instead The interaction of Math and CSS has been on the agenda for CSS and Math for some time, and if there are issues that would need CSS WG input then clearly we could take those up with the CSS group, but the present issues are with CDF rather than with CSS. David This is a personal response, not to be confused with the last call comment which came from the Math Interest Group. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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