- From: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 08:25:43 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
As opposed to <input type="text">? <object> is using markup to represent/link to/embed content in another content stream. Markup is needed everywhere natural language can't be used or shouldn't be used, but some representation is needed. I don't see any other way around it. Either you need character data or you need markup. And using the content of tags for a fallback mechanism is something someone choose to do. There is no mathematical proof that proves that's what it should be for. Orion Adrian On 5/26/05, Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl> wrote: > Orion Adrian wrote: > > How? And then why? > > > > Images, sub-documents, flash media and form elements are all content > > and they can't be represented by non-markup. That an the content that > > is separator can be represented multiple ways and if you don't turn it > > into markup then you can't change its look or how it's presented > > aurally. > > Markup is used to point to them and to provide alternate content. By, > for example: > > <object src="foo"> fallback </object> > > 'foo' is the actual content here, not the OBJECT element. > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > <http://annevankesteren.nl/> > >
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