Posted by Jan Faerber on 12/27/05 23:28

Greg N. ... output:

> 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?
>

I don't understand the purpose of this posting.


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Jan

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