- From: Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@sci.wfbr.edu>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:39:46 -0500 (EST)
- To: erik@inch.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
From: erik <erik@inch.com>
>> Scripting features in HTML _is_ a topic for this list, and we
>> can learn how _not_ to do it by examining JavaScript
>
>What is needed in HTML is a way to allow arbitrary NON-SGML
>sections in a document.....(embedded perl...embedded
>java...etc.). This way we can stop the threat of w3's
>obsolescence.
You are thinking only in terms of Netscape's "first pass"
implementation of SCRIPT. Look at it's generalization in the
08-Feb-96 W3C working draft for SCRIPT, and mentally update it's
references to INSERT with the 12-Apr-96 OBJECT draft. Here's
what one of it's examples becomes, which appears to be exactly
what you are seeking:
<object
id="perl"
classid="progid:Perl.Interpreter"
codebase="http://www.acme.com/perl/bin/perl.cab"
>
</object>
<script SCRIPTENGINE="#perl">
# perl script here
#
</script>
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