Re: HTML "include": see WD-object [was: HTTP Connection Management]

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   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?

Received on Sunday, 6 April 1997 00:48:35 UTC