A Pint of ALE - Ajax Linking and Embedding
Recently I had to write a document which required the inclusion of some images, a chart, and a few drawings in the text - something that modern word processors allow you to simply and readily do. In fact, the ability to embed and edit rich content directly in a document is actually a pretty handy and powerful feature; arguably one of the more important and enabling features of modern day office suites, such as OpenOffice and Microsoft Office.What is really nice is that the embedded content is saved along with the enclosing document. So for example, if I email a document to a colleague, then the embedded objects I have included into the document follow it to their destination. This embedding capability has traditionally been enabled by leveraging component object models such as Microsoft’s COM/DCOM or IBM’s DSOM and has been the domain of fat desktop applications and office suites.
