Ounree!

At lunch the other day I was talking about how HTML/XHTML doesn't support includes. And by includes I mean you can't use a tag to drop in a chunk of HTML from a source URI. IFrames and other tags don't drop the HTML inline in the page.

Looking on the http://www.w3.org/ site I found the XHTML 2.0 spec for Embedding. It looks like this could be used in place of Server-Side Includes for inserting HTML.

I think this will mostly be useful when someone is trying to edit a site without a web server to help them view the page. Currently all methods of using includes requires a server to parse in the includes.

I'm nominating Verizon's website as one of the worst websites I've used in a long time. I've had trouble with all the forms I've tried using on their site, and only managed to submit one form successfully. That was the "Contact Us" form and I had to use IE to submit it, because I got a javascript error on Firefox.

This Google books page from "Out-door Papers" has a story about an ancestor of mine. I believe my mother once showed me a newspaper clipping that told the same story.