On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:03:24 +0100, ddailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
As a newcomer to this group, please forgive my ignorance of discussions
that, undoubtedly, have already taken place, but as I have been reading
these threads on <video> and timed media and <object>, a couple of
questions have come to mind:
1. why not just include SMIL as a part of HTML, much in the same way
that it is integrated with SVG? It is an existing W3C reco.
Reasons for not using <t:video> were that it was 1) complicated and 2) not
used.
2. For content such as XML, MathML, SVG, ChemML... that one would like
to embed in an HTML document could there not be some sort of tag
(<object> was supposed to work, but doesn't in some browsers) like say
<dom data="some.xml" id="D">
for which the DOM associated with the XML content would be easily
accessible through script as with:
XMLDoc=document.getElementById("D").getXMLDocument.
It seems as though external things which have DOMs are quite different
that other sorts of media and may deserve their own tag.
This use case is already addressed by <object>:
<object data=some.xml id=test></object>
document.getElementById('test').contentDocument
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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
