New Python WebMail app

[Roman Suzi]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Alex Martelli wrote:

> > I hope, Mozilla will NEVER support such a "feature"!
> 
> You're *HOPING* that Mozilla NEVER supports the W3 standards?!
> 
> This specific task you may as well perform with tag OBJECT, but
> IFRAME (while less general than OBJECT) is targetable (by name)
> by ALINK.  In this case it makes no difference, since you're
> not giving a name attribute to your iframe tag.
> 
> Of course, given a content-type of audio/x-wav, the browser (no
> matter how that content-type gets to it -- IFRAME, OBJECT, FRAME
> in a frameset, or any other way yet) should handle it appropriately
> (it's a well-known, long-standing bug in IE that file associations
> for the "extension" override mime-types -- I'm not sure if the bug
> has been fixed in IE6, since many badly-coded sites may rely on
> the bug being present, supplying wrong mime-types).  But this is
> most obviously irrelevant to the issue of supporting W3 standards.
> 
> You seem to be mixing up justified concern at some IE bugs, with
> (IMHO) unjustified rejection of perfectly acceptable parts of
> the HTML 4.0 standard.

I agree. By feature I understand blindly executing IFRAME
content, of course, not the ability to specify it.

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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