Re: Reinitializing OBJECT and EMBED - data and type changes

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:47:18 -0500 Message-ID: <480FF4B6.1070409@mit.edu> To: "Michael A. Puls II" <shadow2531@gmail.com> CC: public-html@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 2 June 2009 18:32:31 GMT

Michael A. Puls II wrote:
> The one concern I have about data or type changes (or even param
> changes) causing the object to reinitialize is that if you need to
> change multiple things, you end up reinitializing for each change.

It's not clear that this is such a terrible thing, necesarily.

But more importantly, is there any text in the spec that requires the 
reinitialization to be synchronous?  Do sites expect it to be?

-Boris