- From: Simon Middleton <smiddleton@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 10:23:17 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Tue 13 May, Benjamin Franz wrote: > NS and MSIE's 'support' for OBJECT is downright discouraging - not only > have NO improvements in the handling of OBJECT been made since their 3.x > releases, MSIE has arguably *lost* some ground. NS remains blissfully (and > harmlessly) unaware of OBJECT This isn't quite true I believe. Netscape do actually advertise support for OBJECT in 4.0. I haven't tried it with Java or Shockwave but I did try it with a jpeg image. The results were not encouraging as for each OBJECT it brought up an modal error box saying that there was no component installed to handle the type image/jpeg. Bringing up that kind of error whilst rendering a page would seem to me to be the worst possible response, short of crashing. This was the first Communicator alpha so maybe it's fixed by now. I'm not sure whether this should bring their mark up or down... Simon. -- Simon Middleton, Senior Software Engineer Tel: +44 (0) 1223 725576 Acorn Technologies and Engineering Division WWW: http://www.acorn.co.uk/
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