- From: Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:10:25 +0200
- To: "Tantek Celik" <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:57:59 -0700, "Tantek Celik" <tantek@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: [...] >Ok HTML4 historians, why the heck wasn't the "NAME" attribute (as present on >IFRAME) allowed on "OBJECT"? This would have allowed using OBJECT as a >strict generic replacement for IFRAME. Could we fix this in an HTML4.02? Maybe because in traditional SGML this is one possible and originally defined job for ID and it's companion IDREF? You would ID an OBJECT and then refer to it from an IDREF type element. What ever type of processing that an agent may want to do with an IDREF is actually up to the agent, but using an IDREF as a link to bring in new OBJECTS with different ID's into a "frame-like" area on a VDU is one fully valid SGML defined behavior. Read the rest of it here... http://etext.virginia.edu/bin/tei-tocs?div=DIV2&id=SG16 And mind you that the HTML specs for OBJECT allows for "declared but not yet instantiated OBJECTS" to be defined in the HEAD element of a doc which could provide one possible key for how to implement it all. Combine all of what's required in a doc that has fixed some of its elements in a "frame-like" fashion and we may home free on this. How's that for "history" for you? :-) (and IFRAME is IMO a "hack", dirty or not, but still a "hack" :> ) -- Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com> <URL:http://member.newsguy.com/%7Ejrexon/>
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