- From: Shadow2531 <shadow2531@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 07:46:27 -0400
- To: "Laurens Holst" <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Cc: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "WHAT Working Group Mailing List" <whatwg@whatwg.org>, public-html@w3.org
On 3/29/07, Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl> wrote: > The URL parameter (as also seen in e.g. Quicktime and Flash) is imho a > dirty hack to work around implementations not providing plugins with a > streaming file reader object. At least, that is the only explanation I > can come up with. There is a DATA attribute on the object, and that > should be sufficient. There are a few problems with data for OBJECT and src for EMBED. 1. The plugin doesn't always support those params for a file resource and browsers have to hack in support on a per-plugin basis to make src / data work (if they choose to). The java plug-in, tcl plugin, wmp plugin, neptune plugin, videolan plugin, tcl plugin and the Real plugin all don't support a data param by theirselves. 2. They cause the browser to automatically download the resource. A plugin should support 3 different params for specifying a source file. 'data' to cause the browser to automatically download the resource via OBJECT: <object data="file.ext"></object> 'src' to cause the browser to automatically download the resource via EMBED: <embed src="file.ext"> 'another_param' to prevent the browser from automatically downloading the resource if a autoplay (for example) param is set to false: <object type="type"> <param name="another_param" value="file.ext"> <param name="autoplay" value="false"> </object> object.play() starts the downloading. <embed type="type" another_param="file.ext" autoplay="false"> embed.play() starts the downloading (The effect of another_param could be simulated by just writing out the whole object with JS when ready, but ...) Anyway, with a VIDEO element, that stuff wouldn't be a problem as it can be dealt with specifically as opposed to OBJECT where you have to worry about all the existing behaviors. -- burnout426
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