Re: OBJECT implementation (longish)

----- Original Message -----
From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
To: <www-html@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: OBJECT implementation (longish)


> 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...

What usage did you have in mind? The comment in the DTD reads "submit as
part of form".

Braden

Received on Wednesday, 19 May 1999 07:38:35 UTC