- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:20:00 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 8:29a -0700 08/04/98, David Perrell wrote: >Repeating from 13.5 of the HTML 4.0 REC: "An embedded document is entirely >independent of the document in which it is embedded...An embedded document >is only rendered within another document (e.g., in a subwindow); it remains >otherwise independent." Could someone define what a "subwindow" is? >Is a text/plain file a document? If so, it is rendered in a subwindow, >entirely independent of the embedding document, and that subwindow will have >its own default background. But non-documents must be treated differently, >e.g.: for an image the background can be determined by the embedding >document. What is a non-document? Is a PDF file not a document? It sure isn't text... -Walter
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