- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:30:08 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Malcolm Rowe wrote: > > > > > > 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. Fair enough. > 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. True. But plugins aren't going to work reliably across platforms anyway, so aren't a real solution to anything here. > (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). I don't think the NPAPI currently supports that. But if it did, it could just as easily have a way of saying "handle labels that point to me like this". -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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