There is nothing to prevent browers from inlining on selection right now,
though it would be nice if you could pass a window id to xv and not have
to build in all that code. Having browsers and external viewers cooperate
should be an easy project. Any volunteers?
I think in 10 years auto-inlining anchors (for other than iconic purposes,
which is what <A><IMG...></A> really does) will be considered the GOTO of
hypertext. Good document design should minimize them, but they are handy
when you are in deep shaving cream.
see also: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Elements/A.html
It talks about REL=Embed which is pretty interesting for doing outlines.
> > I would certainly love to hear discussion about what to do with text
> > flow -- it's starting to become a popular request.
> I would like this feature also very much.
Wouldn't adding a <IMG ALIGN="flow"> hint do the job? I haven't researched
all the different ways people like to flow text around images but I think
this would solve 80% of the problem (which is that people don't want all
that empty space). I don't see anything preventing browsers from flowing
text right now.
--sanders