- From: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:12:47 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
At 09:43 +0200 UTC, on 2007-07-02, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:02:22 +0200, Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl> wrote: >> How realistic is it to expect people to use <object>, given that IE >> breaks interoperability? > > Probably slightly more realistic than expecting people to use a new > element that works nowhere. Could you be a bit more verbose please? I can think of several things you might mean, but if I need to guess, I might guess wrong. > Given the current problems with > interoperability in browsers I would rather focus on fixing existing > features such as <object> than having some new type of plugin or image > construct that does about the same. If there's any chance that <object> will be made to work interoperably in IE, sure. There'd still be a transition period during which it would be hard for authors to cater to pre-HTML5 UAs, but as users upgrade to HTML5 conforming UAs, authoring will become easier. -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
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