- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:45:28 +0100
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- CC: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>, public-html@w3.org
Robert Burns wrote: > 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. Strangely enough, I was thinking exactly the opposite, and wondering whether Microsoft might be persuaded to migrate their horrific ?Active-X? strings from the opening <object> tag to an nested <param>. This would actually allow each browser vendor to implement the basic functionality of <object> in a completely consistent way whilst at the same time allowing each to exploit platform-specific hooks through a platform/browser specific <param>. For Microsoft IE, this might read (for example) <object data="http://www.sarahsnotecards.com/catalunyalive/diables.mov" width="320" height="256"> <param name="msie:classid" value="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" <param name="msie:codebase" value="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" <param name="msie:controller" value="true" /> <param name="msie:autoplay" value="false" /> </object> rather than the present execrable <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="320" height="256"> <param name="src" value="http://www.sarahsnotecards.com/catalunyalive/diables.mov" /> <param name="controller" value="true" /> <param name="autoplay" value="false" /> </object> Philip Taylor
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