- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 21:40:57 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Svante Schubert <Svante.Schubert@Sun.COM>
- Cc: public-cdf@w3.org, dbaron@dbaron.org, codedread@gmail.com
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Svante Schubert wrote: > > > > > > > > Section 2.1.3 - is there any possibility that a single element > > > > could reference MULTIPLE documents? [...] The working group > > > > discussed this during our meeting today. No languages that we > > > > know of allow this or are planning to. > > > > HTML4's <img> element (src and longdesc) is one example that comes to > > mind. There are others. > > You are right on this. It is possible to reference from HTML to > multiple documents. This behavior is well defined in the HTML spec Actually it really isn't. In fact, the HTML spec defines <object> probably better than it defines its other inclusion mechanisms (not that that is saying much, given how vague it is about <object>). The HTML5 spec will unambiguously define inclusion mechanisms for all of HTML's various inclusion features, including <img> and <object>, though. > and as WICD core define external documents only by the OBJECT element > this scenario is not in our scope. I don't really understand what that means. Is HTML (or XHTML) out of scope for WICD? What languages are in scope, if that is so? > Therefore we do not specify to reference multiple documents by a single > document. How should a CDR UA handle a document with an element that references multiple documents, then? It seems like it will be hard to obtain interoperability if you do not specify this. I do not feel this issue is resolved, but as it seems that CDF are not targetting Web browsers and Web content authors (which are the communities I am concerned about) I retract this and any other objections I may have raised on this specification. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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