Re: IE's AND EVERYONE ELSE'S object implementation problems (was RE: Baby Steps or Backwards Steps?)

On 8/21/07, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 2007-08-21 09:08 -0500, Robert Burns wrote:
> >  • Mozilla (2.0.0.6): Still images work fine: both small and large.
> > Time-based media does not load except for the audio track, which
> > plays automatically on load.
>
> Object handling has been significantly rewritten on the trunk.  Try
> the latest Gran Paradiso alpha if you want to get a sense of current
> Mozilla behavior:
>   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/granparadiso/

Yes. As in example:

<object type="application/x-mplayer2" data="image.gif" width="300"
height="300"></object>

FF2 would load the wmp plugin and have the wmp embed the image, where
as in FF3 (and Opera), the type is ignored and the server type is
honored.

-- 
Michael

Received on Tuesday, 21 August 2007 23:43:48 UTC