- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:22:08 -0500
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: WHAT Working Group Mailing List <whatwg@whatwg.org>, public-html@w3.org
Henri Sivonen wrote: > I've asked about this before but I still don't understand it: Why > doesn't Gecko completely ignore the classid? Apart from the fact that this would technically be a spec violation, it actually breaks some pages (because the ActiveX and NPAPI versions of some plug-ins expose different APIs), last I checked. >(IIRC, Opera on Mac and Mac IE 5 ignore the classid and dispatch on MIME.) Which fixes pages that don't use a fallback embed, but breaks some others. It's a tradeoff of which exact pages you want to work and how many of them there are... -Boris
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