- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:53:36 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Quoting dolphinling <lists@dolphinling.net>:
>> That was a mistake. We need "target" at least for <object>.
>
> Why?
>
> If it's for the same reason that target currently exists and you're
> planning on using <object> like an iframe, then no, that's wrong.
I don't see why that would be wrong.
> Links are for moving from one resource to another. <object> is for
> external data that is part of the current resource. If you're
> changing the source of the <object> data, then you're changing the
> current resource, and it belongs in the realm of javascript.
>
> ("Resource" here meaning the same thing it does in URL/URI)
That's a related problem, yes. I hope that can be solved one day.
Perhaps using
the identifier approach from XFrames or something else.
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
Received on Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:53:36 UTC