Re: IMG tag

On Jan 15, 2008 1:32 PM, Jon Barnett <jonbarnett@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 15, 2008 9:33 AM,  <Wesley.Upchurch@semcoinc.com> wrote:
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> > Thoughts on the IMG tag:
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> > Because the draft says there still needs to be discussion on this: [Should
> > we restrict the URI to pointing to an image? What's an image? Is PDF an
> > image? (Safari supports PDFs in <img> elements.) How about SVG? (Opera
> > supports those). WMFs? XPMs? HTML?] ....
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> My thought is that an image is anything with an image/* MIME type,
> which would include SVG, but not PDF, though I can see the case for
> PDFs.
>
It might compromise security if the plugin runs javascript.

Acrobat 7 can execute javascript in the url.

Garrett

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