[whatwg] Video proposals

Alexey Feldgendler alexey at feldgendler.ru
Tue Mar 27 03:16:34 PDT 2007


On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:59:14 +0200, Benoit Piette <benoit.piette at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the same train of thought, a <document> tag might be useful. I always
> found anoying that for many embeded documents (word or pdf) you would have a
> second user interface that have similar functionnality to the web browser
> (ex: search within a document). Something like <document src=""
> type="application/ms-word" />. Having a consistent API and consistent user
> interface for an embeded document would be certainly useful. Imagine a
> consitent interface (user and API) for an embeded word document, a pdf, or
> even an editable content / controls for a CMS, wiki or a blog... Of course,
> creating an API that can edit both a PDF and a Word document is something
> daunting to say the least... But something that could be useful for simple
> content creation (like in a simple CMS, blog or wiki, something that can
> actualy generate valid HTML!) and general document embedding for viewing
> might be possible.

There is <iframe> for this.


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