- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:31:13 +0200
2007/6/13, Simon Pieters: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:15:53 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > > >> What if you want to pass a paramater to a plugin with non-ASCII > >> characters using <embed>? > > > > People who want that should readjust their wishes, in my opinion. > > I agree with what you're saying, but I'm not sure if it makes sense to put > this restriction on the HTML level. After all, the following is not > non-conforming: > > <object data="foo"> > <param name="sm?rg?sbord" value=""> > </object> > > Should that be made non-conforming too, for the same reasons? I don't think so. > What if there is plugin content that uses non-ASCII characters as > parameters (and you didn't author it), should it be disallowed to author > HTML content aimed at that plugin content? You just won't be able to use it with <embed> and be forced to use <object>. Given that <embed> is deprecated, that's not a big deal. -- Thomas Broyer
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