- From: nemo/Joel N. Weber II <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:48:38 -0500 (EST)
- To: connolly@w3.org
- CC: john@math.nwu.edu, www-html@w3.org
[This message was sent to the http-wg list; but it seems to be an html issue, so I'm replying on the www-html list.] From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 16:11:50 -0600 Organization: World Wide Web Consortium John Franks wrote: > One of the major failings of HTML is its inability to do > "client side includes" i.e. the equivalent of <img src="foo.png"> > for text rather than images. We expect to remedy this with deployment support for the <object> spec[1]. For example: <object data="foo.html"> <a href="foo.html">would be in-line if your client supported WD-object</a> </object> [1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-object From reading that spec, I'm not clear whether foo.html is supposed to be a complete HTML document (ie with a <HEAD> and <BODY>), or if the HTML in foo.html is supposed be included the way a #include directive in C works. Am I missing something?
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