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Bug 12957 - Is it possible to supply new semantic tag, just like <img>, <canvas> and <audio>, to support view and edit ODF document or PDF document in brower? These document formats are widely used. We hope they can be manipulated in brower directly with the help of
Summary: Is it possible to supply new semantic tag, just like <img>, <canvas> and <aud...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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: 13094 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-06-15 07:59 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:15 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-06-15 07:59:27 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top

Comment:
Is it possible to supply new semantic tag, just like <img>, <canvas> and
<audio>, to support view and edit ODF document or PDF document in brower?
These document formats are widely used. We hope they can be manipulated in
brower directly with the help of HTML5, no need install any other third party
plugins. Most of these plugins are not stable and ineffective...

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Comment 1 brunoais 2011-06-17 07:37:28 UTC 
Pdf isn't made to be editable. When it was made there was no intention for it to be editable, the only intention was to distribute.
Anyway, for ODT it makes sense. Even if it may only appear as a browser plugin.
Comment 2 Aryeh Gregor 2011-06-24 21:15:49 UTC 
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Status: Additional Information Needed
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: ODFs and PDFs can already be included using <object>.  <img>, <canvas>, and <audio> all have special features that are specific to the media type that are not available using just <object>.  What are you seeking to gain by introducing a new tag?  Browsers can already implement their own ODF or PDF viewers or editors directly in the browser, and use those to handle <object> -- it doesn't need its own tag for that.  We'd only need a special tag if we wanted to have special standardized behavior, like attributes or methods that only make sense for PDF/ODF.

If you want browsers to implement in-browser viewing or editing of PDF or ODF in <object> tags, rather than requiring the use of plugins, I encourage you to communicate directly with the implementers of the browsers in question.
Comment 3 Aryeh Gregor 2011-06-30 20:17:44 UTC 
*** Bug 13094 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:15:24 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1