Re: [boost] HTML docs include of examples

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-18 10:51:09

At 01:53 PM 9/15/2001, Greg Colvin wrote:

 >The 4.0.1 specification provides an OBJECT tag that might do the trick:
 >
 >       For instance, the following line embeds the contents of
 >embed_me.html
 >       at the location where the OBJECT definition occurs.
 >
 >         ...text before...
 >         <OBJECT data="embed_me.html">
 >         Warning: embed_me.html could not be embedded.
 >         </OBJECT>
 >         ...text after...
 >
 >       Recall that the contents of OBJECT must only be rendered if the 
file
 >       specified by the data attribute cannot be loaded.
 >
 >       http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/struct/objects.html#embedded-documents
 >       http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/struct/objects.html#edef-OBJECT

Thanks for pointing that out.

I experimented a bit and found:

   *  IE 5 sort of supports OBJECT, but opens a scroll window for the 
display
      resulting in only marginal usefulness.  I couldn't find any 
combination
      of border and/or positioning parameters which made it fully useful.

   *  Netscape as recently as version 4.73 doesn't support OBJECT at all,
      AFAICS.

So, nice try, but not useful, unless I'm missing something.

--Beman