- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:41:38 +0200
- To: public-evangelist@w3.org
I was wondering how OBJECT is supposed to work in future versions of XHTML when XHTML 2.0 changes the name of the DATA attribute to SRC. Also, how relevant is OBJECT in XHTML 2.0? On EMBED, it is widely supported and I believe WHATWG might standardize its behavior. Of course, it has the wrong name and such, but its fallback mechanism is equily backwards compatible to OBJECT. Perhaps better, as OBJECT is not entirely correctly implemented by IE. (Although Dean Edwards found a fix for |data="image/*"|.) And how far is this future were non-strict web content breaks? Now even mobile devices can render the most ugly nested tag soup usable and this size of including such a parser is probably negligible I think we might never lose it. There is even an effort going on to standardize HTML parsing rules. With other words: defining error handling similar to CSS. (Via: <http://www.webstandards.org/learn/askw3c/may2005.html>) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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