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Re: ISSUE-107 Change Proposal: Replace <object> fallback example

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:47:47 +0200
Message-ID: <4BD188E3.20807@gmx.de>
To: Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>
CC: 'Ian Hickson' <ian@hixie.ch>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, public-html <public-html@w3.org> 
On 23.04.2010 13:39, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> Sorry, Ian - but<object>  is _NOT_ restricted to plugins, which is one of the reasons behind this change proposal.
>
> As discussed in a previous thread, a given UA may have native support for a given format/media-type that is specified via an<object>  and so no plugin is involved.  Consider Safari on Mac's native support for PDF...

Oh; we have a related bug related to that... 
<http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9221>. "What is a plugin".

> ...

Best regards, Julian
Received on Friday, 23 April 2010 11:48:29 UTC

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