Re: Who Understands...?

[Dieter@isodraw.de (Dieter Weidenbrueck)]

Lofton,

in a lot of cases you add the classid of the ActiveX control to the object
tag to identify the viewer that should be used. If the viewer is not
installed you can add another property that points to a location where the
code (the ActiveX control) can be found if it is not installed already.

As the classid is unique it will work with a specific viewer only, the
example shows the IsoView ID:

<object id="ivx" classid="clsid:865B2280-2B71-11D1-BC01-006097AC382A"
src="abc.cgm">
 </object>

If IsoView is not installed the tag will fail, even if another cgm viewer is
installed.

Therefore we (John and I at that time) recommended to omit any references to
code resources.

Dieter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lofton Henderson" <lofton@rockynet.com>
To: <cgmopen-members@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:37 PM
Subject: Who Understands...?


>
> In WebCGM 1.0, section 3.4, OBJECT TAG, 3rd pgh, 2nd sentence: "Content
> with uses WebCGM should not make direct reference to the code which may be
> used to display it."
>
> Changing "with" to "which" (or rather "that") makes the sentence read
> okay.  But can someone clarify for me, what point or requirement we're
> expressing here?  (And should "should" be "shall"?).
>
> -Lofton.
>
>
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