- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@technologist.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 00:14:21 -0400
- To: Taylor <taylor@wired.com>
- CC: Stuart Harris <sirrah@baluga.maximumaccess.com>, www-dom@w3.org
Taylor wrote: > Yes, yes, yes I know. But as always I need to publish to joe sixpack who > lives in the here and now. As you know, you can't, either my way or your way. > I've been pushing for this external entity to > be implemented in through the object tag. Is that a valid place? I don't think so, for two reasons: #1. The OBJECT tag includes an essentially opaque object. I don't think it should have radically different semantics when it is including HTML code. #2. The feature *already exists*. There is syntax for it, documentation for it, working implementations (not browsers, but hundreds of other tools), well-defined semantics, etc. #3. The external entity feature must be implemented for XML anyhow. Now is as good a time as tomorrow. > I've > been speaking to my local browser vendor (Microsoft) to include this > functionality, but in an appropriate place. Object seems to be a good > candidate. CSS does not. I disagree with the former statement but agree with the latter. Paul Prescod
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