Re: ISSUE-230: OBJECTS_AND_SCRIPTS needs to address <object> with multiple children [mobileOK Basic tests]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:03:18 +0100, Mobile Web Best Practices Working  
Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:

> ISSUE-230: OBJECTS_AND_SCRIPTS needs to address <object> with multiple  
> children [mobileOK Basic tests]
>
> http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/track/issues/
>
> Raised by: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
> On product: mobileOK Basic tests
>
> Dom notes that the spec assumes that <object> contains at most one  
> child, when that is not true. This is legal:
>
> <object data="foo" type="video/mpeg">
>  <object data="bar" type="image/png"></object>
>  <object data="baz" type="image/gif"></object>
>  <img src="foobar" />
>  Hello
> </object>
>
> I (Sean) suggested the following rewrite to the test:
>
> Call an object element "usable" if and only if
> - Its data attribute refers to a supported image type, OR
> - It is empty (but this generates a warning), OR
> - Its children are all either
>  - text nodes not consisting entirely of whitespace
>  - img elements referring to a supported image type
>  - "usable" object elements
>
> .... and then the test is merely, for each <object> (that's not a child  
> of an <object>), FAIL if it is not "usable"

Actually, if *any* of the children refer to an accepted data type (or  
contain acceptable data), then this should be fine (you have to test that  
reference for size etc, of course). Using <object> is one way of catering  
for adapting content to more capable browsers...

cheers

Chaals

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