hixie: profile='' processing; example for <object>; add link to research for dialog suggestions (whatwg r3905)

hixie: profile='' processing; example for <object>; add link to research
for dialog suggestions (whatwg r3905)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.3066&r2=1.3067&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3904&to=3905

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+++ Overview.html 18 Sep 2009 20:24:25 -0000 1.3067
@@ -18181,6 +18181,30 @@
   <a href="#reflect">reflect</a> the respective content attributes of the same
   name.</p>
 
+  </div><div class="example">
+
+   <p>The following example shows how the <code><a href="#the-param-element">param</a></code> element
+   can be used to pass a parameter to a plugin, in this case the Flash
+   plugin.</p>
+
+   <pre>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;
+&lt;html lang="en"&gt;
+ &lt;head&gt;
+  &lt;title&gt;Flash test page&lt;/title&gt;
+ &lt;/head&gt;
+ &lt;body&gt;
+  &lt;p&gt;
+   &lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;
+    <strong>&lt;param name=movie value="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/flash.swf"&gt;</strong>
+    This page requires the use of a proprietary technology. Since you
+    have not installed the software product required to view this
+    page, you should try visiting another site that instead uses open
+    vendor-neutral technologies.
+   &lt;/object&gt; 
+  &lt;/p&gt;
+ &lt;/body&gt;
+&lt;/html&gt;</pre>
+
   </div><h4 id="video"><span class="secno">4.8.7 </span>The <dfn><code>video</code></dfn> element</h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Last call for comments. </i><span><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/7">ISSUE-7</a> (video-codecs), <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/9">ISSUE-9</a> (video-synchronization) and <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/10">ISSUE-10</a> (video-smil) block progress to Last Call</span><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
    <dd><a href="#flow-content">Flow content</a>.</dd>
    <dd><a href="#phrasing-content">Phrasing content</a>.</dd>
@@ -38434,7 +38458,7 @@
    that apply to the page itself; they are just part of an index
    listing the tags themselves.</p>
 
-  </div><h4 id="conversations"><span class="secno">4.12.2 </span>Conversations</h4><p>This specification does not define a specific element for marking
+  </div><h4 id="conversations"><span class="secno">4.12.2 </span>Conversations</h4><!-- http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-September/022576.html --><p>This specification does not define a specific element for marking
   up conversations, meeting minutes, chat transcripts, dialogues in
   screenplays, instant message logs, and other situations where
   different players take turns in discourse.<p>Instead, authors are encouraged to mark up conversations using
@@ -67795,17 +67819,26 @@
   <p>When the attribute would be used as a globally unique name, the
   user agent should instead always assume that all known profiles
   apply to all pages, and should therefore apply the conventions of
-  all known metadata profiles to the document.</p>
+  all known metadata profiles to the document, ignoring the value of
+  the attribute.</p>
 
   <p>When the attribute's value would be handled as a <a href="#url">URL</a>
-  and dereferenced, the user agent may <a href="#resolve-a-url" title="resolve a
-  url">resolve</a> the attribute's value, and if that is
-  successful, may then <a href="#fetch">fetch</a> the resulting <a href="#absolute-url">absolute
-  URL</a> and apply the appropriate processing.</p>
+  and dereferenced, the user agent must use the following steps:</p>
 
-  <p>The <dfn id="dom-head-profile" title="dom-head-profile"><code>profile</code></dfn> IDL
+  <ol><li><p><a href="#split-a-string-on-spaces" title="split a string on spaces">Split on
+   spaces</a> the the value of the <code title="attr-meta-profile">profile</code> attribute.</li>
+
+   <li><p><a href="#resolve-a-url" title="resolve a url">Resolve</a> each resulting
+   token relative to the <code><a href="#meta">meta</a></code> element.</li>
+
+   <li><p>For each token that is successfully resolved,
+   <a href="#fetch">fetch</a> the resulting <a href="#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> and
+   apply the appropriate processing.</li>
+
+  </ol><p>The <dfn id="dom-head-profile" title="dom-head-profile"><code>profile</code></dfn> IDL
   attribute of the <code><a href="#the-head-element-0">head</a></code> element must <a href="#reflect">reflect</a>
-  the content attribute of the same name.</p>
+  the content attribute of the same name, as if the attribute's value
+  was just a string. (In other words, the value is not <a href="#resolve-a-url" title="resolve a url">resolved</a> in any way on getting.)</p>
 
   <hr><pre class="idl">[Supplemental]
 interface <a href="#htmlhrelement">HTMLHRElement</a> {

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