- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:04:33 -0500
- To: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- CC: public-html@w3.org, WHAT Working Group Mailing List <whatwg@whatwg.org>
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. > Would it be possible to change Mozilla’s behaviour so that it still tries to invoke > the plugin finder if the classid attribute is used? Not particularly, since those <object>s often depend on implementation details of the ActiveX plug-ins in question (which are not necessarily shared by the NPAPI versions). > 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. -Boris
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