- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 11:03:55 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 8:15p -0700 05/07/99, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: >"Brian R. Smith" wrote: >> (5) If an OBJECT has no "type" attribute (legal) and specifies a URL to >> something that doesn't provide type information (FTP, local file, etc.), how >> should it be handled? Scientific wild-ass guess? > >The HTTP case is clear; for the local file case, I'd say that >determining the MIME type is up to whatever mechanism the local OS has >in place (which could be a "scientific wild-ass guess"). I like that term. "SWAG"? :-) >> (6) If you put an OBJECT into a form, where does the value to be submitted >> for it come from? > >I'm not a forms guy, so I'll pass on this one. I can only picture that as an imagemap; nothing else makes any sense. Actually I would expect it to be a valueless item, like <IMG>. Just because it can take a NAME= doesn't make it a form element... -Walter
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