Re: [cgmo-webcgm] WebCGM and the <object> tag

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

At 10:41 AM 11/30/2004 -0500, Benoit Bezaire wrote:
>[...]
>   In the attempt to move ahead on a test suite, I was wondering if the
>   initial test files could make use of the 'src' param instead of the
>   'data' attribute?

If this is done, the HTML files that contain the wrong object tags should 
be self-documenting as "incorrect..."  I'm reluctant to encourage the 
circulation of such files, but this might mitigate the potential for 
creating confusion.

It is a subtle point, whether the WebCGM standard can place conformance 
requirements on HTML content that references WebCGM instances.  However the 
prescription in WebCGM (section 3.4) is unambiguous:

>The only standard way to reference in-line CGMs from HTML documents is 
>through the OBJECT tag, using the DATA attribute for the CGM file and the 
>TYPE attribute to specify the full Mime Type. The minimal tag for adding 
>CGM into a document would be:
><OBJECT DATA="xxx.cgm" TYPE="image/cgm;Version=4;ProfileId=WebCGM"; 
>WIDTH=200; HEIGHT=100>

-Lofton.