- From: Mark Gaither <markg@hal.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:12:35 -0500 (CDT)
- To: connolly@beach.w3.org
- Cc: alexed@netscape.com, markg@hal.com, html-wg@oclc.com, www-html@www0.cern.ch, ebina@neon.netscape.com, marca@neon.netscape.com, jg@neon.netscape.com
"Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org> voluntarily purged these thoughts: > In message <305F8F0F.3561@netscape.com>, Alex Edelstein writes: > >Description > > > >EMBED is a container that allows the insertion of arbitrary objects directly > >into an HTML page. Embedded objects are supported by application-specific > >plug-ins. > > You mentioned that you'll submit these specs as internet drafts once > you've got ELEMENT and ATTLIST declarations figured out. I'm willing > to help. But... > > >EMBED can take arbitrary attributes. > > I believe this is not expressible in SGML. To write the DTD, we have > to know the list of possible attribute names. This issue came up > in discussion of the APP element as well. (Dan surfs the archive...) I also wrote a page about this at: http://www.halsoft.com/html/hotjava.html > > p.s. Mark Gaither: you wanna start hacking up a DTD to describe these > extensions and stick it on the validation service so everybody can try > them out? I know you're busy... if you're too busy, is there anybody > else who runs a clone of the validation service who wants to try > it out? > I'll give it a go Dan. > Maybe I'll get a clone running on www.w3.org. I need to do that > for the conformance testing anyway. > Yes you should. I am already working with one working mirror site and I'm getting a UK site up this week. Mark
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