Thanks. The DIV SRC can replace OBJECT and IFRAME so now moot is my concern
about IE blocking OBJECT when ActiveX is disabled, unless IMG element is not
valid in the XHTML 2.0 spec.
----Original Message Follows----
From: Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mike Housman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Requests for revising the XHTML 2.0 specification.
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:44:33 +1000
Mike Housman wrote:
1. Please allow MIME type text/xml+xhtml in the XHTML 2.0 specification.
This presents less security risk than MIME type application/xml+xhtml.
Firstly, neither of those MIME types exist, although I believe you are
referring to application/xhtml+xml. Secondly, what security risks? Thirdly,
you should read why text/xml and other text/*+xml MIME types are not
recommended [1].
2. Please allow IFRAME in the XHTML 2.0 specification. Microsoft Internet
Explorer treats the OBJECT tag as ActiveX which is disabled by me and many
other web users for security reasons, and thus many webpages do not display
properly. Many webmasters would prefer IFRAME in XHTML 2.0 compliant
webpages.
The behaviour of a broken and insecure browser is no reason alter the spec,
especially when many other browsers don't suffer from the same problems.
And besides, <object> in XHTML 2 is in a different namespace from XHTML 1.x,
and so no browser supports it at all.
3. Please allow the SRC attribute for the DIV element in the XHTML 2.0
specification. This would enable the use of DIV as an alternative to the
IFRAME and OBJECT elements.
The src attribute applies to almost every element in XHTML 2, but what
difference does it make by using <div> instead of <object>?
4. Please create a new comment element with start tag <!> and end tag </!>
to replace [or be an alternate to] the current comment syntax: <!-- comment
-->.
Why? The comment syntax is defined by the XML recommendation and <!> would
be illegal in XML since "!" is not a valid name [2]
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#xml-media-types
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name
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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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