- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:37:55 +0200
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "Laurens Holst" <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, "WHAT Working Group Mailing List" <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:04:33 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote: > > Laurens Holst wrote: >> So, what do you think would be needed to fix this situation. > > In my dream world, IE would support dispatch by MIME type and authors who don't > care about targeting a specific plug-in binary could just stop using the classid > mess. For accessibility it is actually important that the *user* decides what software they use, rather than the author. >> Or should Internet >> Explorer fix their behaviour of objects nested in objects (you would >> still have two nested elements then though), or support finding plugins >> in the absence of a classid attribute? > > Yes to both, in my opinion. Likewise. So long as you have IE's broken object behaviour blocking development, we will be in a mess. Chris Wilson points out that they have a responsibility to the part of the web that uses them, but they have a responsibility to deal with major problems, too. And fixing the problems doesn't need to break existing content, it just makes it possible to improve compatibility all around... cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk chaals@opera.com Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com
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