On 15/11/2012, at 3:15 AM, Robin Berjon <ro...@w3.org> wrote:

> On 14/11/2012 00:04 , Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> On 14/11/2012, at 4:37 AM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote:
>>> (For what it's worth, inclusion in HTML is done using <iframe seamless>.)
>> 
>> Ah. Does that work with older browsers (from the 2005 era onwards)?
> 
> Nope. But if you want something that's future-enabled you could transition 
> your library into being a shim for seamless iframes.
> 
> That involves more than inclusion though (see 
> http://benvinegar.github.com/seamless-talk/) so you should probably 
> double-check that seamless is what your use case calls for.

Thanks, Robin - very helpful.

The upside of the seamless approach seems to be that it does the right thing 
WRT the included content's type, etc. (as Ian mentioned). However, making it 
work in older browsers looks a lot more involved. Turning my library into a 
shim for seamless would require code both in the including context and included 
content, AIUI.

If there's interest in specifying an 'include' tag, I'd be willing to do the 
work (spec and code), but otherwise it sounds like leaving things as-is is the 
right thing to do.

Cheers,


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Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/



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