- From: Daniel Hiester <alatus@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:56:13 -0800
- To: "www-html" <www-html@w3.org>
[DJW:] I don't think parameters should be used for simple media types. For them, object is really a special sort of link that embeds the result; normal links don't have such parameters. I think HTML is being confused with a multimedia authoring language here. Daniel Hiester responds: I agree and disagree. I do think it is important that the w3c (or browser vendors, for that matter) not do anything that could give someone the idea that HTML is intended to be a multimedia authoring language. However, I do think that because multimedia is so popular (especially as broadband becomes more widely available in homes across the United States... sorry to say it that way, honestly!), it is important that a unified structure be laid out for it. However, this is probably off-topic for this list, one way or another... [DJW:] If parameters are relevant to such media types, I believe they would be considered presentational and therefore ought to be handled by style sheets, not HTML. Daniel Hiester responds: Style sheets? I assumed that maybe a.) leaving these parameters to be exclusively the terriroty of SMIL (if SMIL could be loaded as a module to XHTML, that would be great), OR maybe talk about defining these parameters in DOM... but my understanding of what DOM is is still rather hazy. Style sheets would be the least relevent, I would guess... but that is just my casual, half-educated guess, and I'm open to any corrections. Daniel
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