Posted by Greg N. on 12/27/05 23:10

This is _not_ the thousandth repetion of the question "how do I include
a piece of HTML in another". I have seen these discussions, and I
understand the answer: There are only server-side solutions to this
problem.

However, a large percentage of the world's web content is stored on
servers whose administrators, for valid reasons, do not offer their
users any server-side programming facility, however simple. So when I
look at the problem, it seems real. It apperars there is a much needed
function sorely missing in HTML.

It is obvious that most pages cannot be rendered from a single piece of
server data, hence there are many elements that allow a page being put
together from various sources from different servers: There is
<FRAMESET>, <FRAME>, <IFRAME>, <IMG>, <APPLET>, <OBJECT>, <STYLE>,
<SCRIPT>... (did I get them all?), all of which can serve the purpose
of letting the UA (more or less) integrate data from multiple sources
and render them as a single entity.

I believe the people who develop the HTML standard have discussed the
necessity and feasibility of client-side HTML fragment inclusion. And
they have obviously decided we don't need it.

Why?

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