Re: Amaya handling of <object>

Henry,

Thanks for pointing this out. There was a bug in the evaluation of nested
objects in Amaya.  It is fixed in the CVS base.

Vincent.

Henry Rzepa wrote:
> 
> Some two years ago we wrote a simple page to test <object> handling.
> We were anticipating generating  XHTML display code from XSLT
> transform of  XML content, and wanted to make the result as robust as 
> possible.
> 
> http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime/tests/object/browsers/scheme2.html
> 
> was tested against the then range of browsers, with pretty disappointing
> results. Only one browser (iCab) passed the tests. Revisiting this test
> some  20 months on, I found things certainly improving. Thus Netscape 6
> is pretty good, and now matches  iCab. 
> 
> Assuming however that  Amaya is the gold standard,
> I expected the result
> 
> http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime/tests/object/browsers/mozilla_x.jpg
> 
> (actually from Mozilla on  MacOS X, for which neither plugins nor
> Java are currently enabled; a situation which  I presumed matches
> Amaya precisely). 
> 
> In fact, the  latest Amaya does not perform as I had expected
> (try for  yourselves)., attempting to display the plugin and  Java,
> even though it cannot do either.  
> 
> Can anyone comment on whether in fact our code is wrong,
> whether there is a genuine  bug in Amaya, or whether the  interpretation
> is ambiguous? 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Henry Rzepa. 
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>  http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7  2AY, UK.

Received on Tuesday, 5 March 2002 08:12:23 UTC