- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:57:07 +0200
- To: "David Dorward" <david@dorward.me.uk>, www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:13:22 +0200, David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:05:57PM +0200, Steven Pemberton wrote: >> I have to disagree. Server-side solutions are necessary because HTML >> doesn't properly support transclusion (which is why page counts are so >> often displayed as images for instance). He is right to suggest native >> support for proper transclusion in HTML. > > Page counts are so often[1] displayed as images because people want them > without wanting to invest in reasonable quality hosting or learning > how to use an SSI, and so depend on a third party. Well, people often don't have the choice. Of the dozen or more websites where I have responsibility for material, I only have the choice with 2 of them. I believe that server-side include is a band-aid of the lack of proper transclusion facilities in HTML. The nice thing about having it natively is that you don't get locked in to one particular server-side solution. Steven Pemberton
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