- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:35:50 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Chandra.Tamirisa@frb.gov
- Cc: public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 Chandra.Tamirisa@frb.gov wrote: > > As I was working on my website to include a common footer across all the > pages on an Apache webserver, I discovered that it could perhaps be done > more elegantly by adding an <include/> tag to the HTML specification. > Such a tag, if the HTML DOM is modified to add it, could supercede the > <object/> tag and serve as a single interface for the browser to parse > its content file name by extension type to render the appropriate file > on the page. It will absorb into it the current SSI functionality > offered in a variety of forms by various intermediate web server > features. > > Including this in the HTML specification itself has the advantage of > applying ACL rules to an HTML page without being subjected to the > web-server specific file security requirements, while applying the > website ACL requirements by page or link, thus not having to worry about > any security breaches (assuming that all the current SSIs serve up the > included file content and not the SSI instruction itself when the page > source is displayed by the browser so as not to reveal the file name and > location of the included file). HTML5 now supports this using <iframe seamless src=""></iframe>. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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