Darren New wrote:

>> I had no idea that you can actually do that...
> 
> Well, there ya go. MS actually invented that technique with ActiveX for 
> their Outlook web thing, and everyone else picked up on it and turned it 
> into a standard.

Looking at the W3C standard spec, there seems to be *huge* abouts of 
tricky processing and non-obvious behaviour which strongly looks as if 
it's only there for backwards compatibility (i.e., because this is the 
ad hoc way the first implementation happened to do it).

Man, web stuff is messy...

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