in reply to CGI.pm and SSI

This is not an answer to the question... but this question reminded me of something I've been wondering for a while now?

Why aren't there client-side includes in the w3c standards (other than frames and iframes?)?

Seems to me like that would be a very useful feature that would prevent lots of hacky, back-door programming... Something that would look like an image tag, but would pull in text to an HTML document. like: 

  <txt src="http://example.com/cgi-bin/something">

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Re: Re: CGI.pm and SSI
by Masem (Monsignor) on Mar 12, 2001 at 20:27 UTC
    This is supposed to be available in HTML4 via the OBJECT tag. However, nearly no browser supports OBJECT fully and properly for this to work well; in addition, unlike SSI which is put into the document before parsing, OBJECT would pull in the document during parsing and the 'environment' would not necessarily be carried over to it, thus making something things such as JavaScripts that span both document sets to fail (maybe not that bad of a thing, but still ....)
    Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com || "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain
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