On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:59:12 +0200, Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com> wrote: > 2. providing a fallback for when a plugin cannot be used. For example, > I run 64bit firefox at home here. There is no 64bit plugin for flash. > How can authors of HTML pages provide a fallback for me (something > better than the browser "missing plugin" message?) This is where it > would be useful to be able to use <embed> ... fallback ... </embed>. > This is highly relevant to the HTML WG as it is directly related to > fallback mechanisms within HTML itself. I suppose an alt= attribute could be introduced for <embed> (legacy parsing prevents us from making it a container element) as well. In fact, it was pointed out on the #whatwg IRC channel that Opera already supports this: data:text/html,<embed alt=TEST src=404> However, if authors are planning on providing proper fallback they are probably better of using the <object> element. I suppose the sections on <img> and <embed> could have some kind of note that says that. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>Received on Sunday, 1 July 2007 10:13:33 GMT
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