Re: handling fallback content for still images

Hi Sander,

On Jul 3, 2007, at 5:12 AM, Sander Tekelenburg wrote:

> At 04:52 -0500 UTC, on 2007-07-03, Robert Burns wrote:
>>> <http://santek.no-ip.org/~st/tests/picturetag/>.
>>
>> I was trying to set something like this up on the wiki, but I don't
>> think it's going to work there.
>> <http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/SimpleObject>
>>
>> Would you mind trying something like this for fallback:
>> <picture src="Acid2.png"> <object data="Acid2.png"> <param
>> name="src"  value="Acid2.png" >fallback </object> </picture>
>
> Done.
>

Thanks for adding that. I think your approach could definitely ease  
and promote adoption. With <object> in Safari I'm getting a slightly  
smaller frame with scrollers. So the <object>. approach might require  
even more markup.

Aside from <picture> (and <video>, <audio>, <canvas>, etc).. it would  
really be good to get UAs to properly support <object> with no  
scrollers and no need for <param> and other superfluous markup.

Take care,
Rob

Received on Tuesday, 3 July 2007 10:24:56 UTC