- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 19:41:04 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Simon Pieters wrote: > > This page > > > http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/bonus/t/analysis2.tmpl?registration_option_id=7840 > > fails to work given these rules > > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dom.html#dom-document-nameditem > > (...which WebKit and Opera more or less implement. Firefox and IE do > things differently.) > > > I think it could be made to work without regressing other pages by > changing the definition of "fallback-free" such that an object is > fallback-free if it does not have any object or embed descendants. Maybe > applet should be in the list, too. img should probably not be in the > list considering spacer gifs. > > > Discussion at http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090407#l-489 > > # [16:03] <zcorpan> the page does <object id=ie><comment><object > id=moz><table><tr><td> </table> > # [16:03] <zcorpan> along with if (null != document.moz) ... else if (null != > document.ie) ... else return // error > # [16:03] <zcorpan> both objects are ignored because they have "fallback" On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Simon Pieters wrote: > > I've looked at http://philip.html5.org/data/object-with-id-or-name.xml.bz2 > (don't open that in a browser) and noted the following: > > * Most have just an embed nested in object. > * Some have nested objects. Many of those have one of the following nested in > the inner object: > - "FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this)." or > other copy-paste cruft > - "<a href=...><img alt="Get Adobe Flash player" src=...></a>" > - Actual alternative content (e.g. an image map) > * None of them had an <applet> nested in <object>. > * None of them had an <iframe> nested in <object>. > * A few have <form> (with id/name) nested in <object>. > > In conclusion, I think the list should be just object and embed. Done. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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