- From: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-what@farside.org.uk>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:00:43 +0100
Ian Hickson writes: >> 4) There's absolutely no way to know how <label> should behave when >> associated with an <object> element. > I think we should say that <object> cannot be a form control any more. > Does anyone know of a case where it was made into a form control? No, but I see no reason that it couldn't be. Consider that <object> just allows the user to view data that the browser is incapable of displaying by itself. image/png, image/mng, and image/svg all come to mind, but so do application/msword and text/rtf. I can see no reason that an <object> might not be used to allow the user to edit (for example) a spreadsheet, SVG diagram, or rich-text field. Simply because the majority of plugins are output only doesn't mean that they all have to be. (From a technical point-of-view: Can [Netscape] plugins actually provide data for form submission? I didn't think they could, so in practice, this may be restricted to ActiveX controls). Regards, Malcolm
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