Re: Versioning of HTML fragments

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:44:34 +0200, Marco Von Ballmoos  
<mvonballmo@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a very common situation that HTML doesn't deal with well at all.  
> For example, an RSS feed may include HTML, which specifies classes and  
> styles. In order that that the feed appear as intended, stylesheets are  
> included as well, but the styles can only go in the head of the  
> document, so each item in a feed ends up being its own HTML document.

Indeed, this is a shortcoming of HTML today, which is why we see <iframe>  
employed, used and abused so heavily. I'm not sure how this can be solved  
in HTML without hooking into some server-side support, though. HTML might  
provide the authoring mechanisms for this to be solved, but without some  
server-side magic, I can't quite picture how this is going to be solved.

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Asbjørn Ulsberg           -=|=-        asbjorn@ulsberg.no
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Received on Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:52:24 UTC