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Re: [css3-regions] iframe as content source

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:52:28 +0000 (UTC)
To: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
cc: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, Vincent Hardy <vhardy@adobe.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1109101549480.10005@ps20323.dreamhostps.com>
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> > >
> > > If so, then extending or modifying "seamless" with more control over 
> > > how styles in the outer document affect the inner document seems 
> > > like the way to go.
> >
> > If this is a presentational desire, it may make sense to define 
> > seamless="" in part in terms of the CSS feature.
> 
> Maybe "seamless" should be entirely a presentational feature, and not an 
> HTML attribute at all.

I think there's definitely a semantic aspect to it: a regular iframe is 
conceptually a different document, whereas a seamless iframe is 
conceputally just a part of the parent document. So I think it makes sense 
to be a content attribute.

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