- From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:07:19 +0100
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Jukka K. Korpela schreef: > The type attribute, if used to express the Internet media type (MIME > type), reflects a wrong approach. The media type is to be known and > announced by the server that delivers the object. The embedding > document should just reserve space for the object (and contain > fallback content to > be presented when the object is not available) Afaik, the type attribute (or whatever its name may be) in this case means to indicate what types it accepts. So supposedly <object src="bla.html" type="image/*">fallback content</object> would result in the fallback content being shown, unless the server associates the .html extension with an image/ type. ~Grauw -- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Laurens Holst, student, university of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Website: www.grauw.nl. Backbase employee; www.backbase.com.
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