- From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:56:48 +0100
- To: shane@aptest.com
- CC: www-html-editor@w3.org
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-object.html#s_objectmodule Hi, in HTML 4 / XHTML1, there is a grey area in the specification of the object element. It would be great if that could be resolved in the XHTML2 spec: Example: There's a page http://www.pinkjuice.com/svg/links/svg.xhtml (XHTML1; let's say it's XHTML2) on which an object element embeds an SVG. The SVG contains links. When I click on one of them, the target replaces the whole canvas, which is what I want. But when the object element embeds HTML, then only the embedding box is replaced with the target document, as with frames. The HTML spec is not clear enough about what the correct behaviour is: 1. replace the whole page (I think that would make most sense, since thumbnails etc have this behaviour.): on http://www.pinkjuice.com/svg/links/svg.xhtml when I click http://www.pinkjuice.com/howto/RubySVG/ the linked document fills the whole canvas of the browser or 2. replace the embedded object: When I click on the link listed above, the page and URL would stay, but instead of the SVG, it would now embed the linked page. This is not desired in most cases, and should not be the default behaviour, but it should be possible to specify this via some attribute. Anyways, I think it is immensely important that the XHTML2.0 spec either offers means to specify the behaviour, or/and that it specifies a default behaviour. Sorry if I'm missing something, but in any case; in the developer / web author world, there is a lot of confusion about what the correct behaviour is, so even if this grey area now is specified in a clear and detailed way now, it would help to add a simple and clear specification with explanation to http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-object.html#s_objectmodule If you can't forward this to the working group, please tell me, then I'll subscribe to www-html@w3.org . TIA! Tobi -- http://www.pinkjuice.com/
Received on Monday, 25 November 2002 16:56:58 UTC