[whatwg] <img> element comments

Bert Altenburg altenburg at mac.com
Wed Aug 15 11:03:15 PDT 2007


Hi,

>> <p xml:base="foo.png"><img src="" alt=""/></p>
>
> Ok but... what's an image? Do we exclude PDFs and SVG? (Safari and  
> Opera
> respectively support those.)

snip

> As Simon asked on IRC, who are we helping by limiting what's allowed?

Displaying PDF is great for company web-apps (mine uses it  
extensively, saving us lots of time).

Bert
Who'd like to see the mailto command to support attachments (so not  
only an e-mail can be generated from a web-app, but attachments such  
as pdf files can be included).



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