- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:29:20 -0400
- To: Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- CC: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
Robert J Burns wrote: > I don't have firefox 2.0 handy/installed anymore, so I'm only speaking > from memory. I think with 2.0, firefox behaved more like IE8 does now > (and Opera, and WebKit too) in that it provided some default non-zero > dimensions for the embedded content. Ah. No, it did not. Just double-checked to be sure on your test pages: the flash video object gets a 0x0 size; setting some width/height styles on the node shows the flash video. > If plugins are limited to NSAPI , then I can understand > how you cannot necessarily communicate inherent dimensions of media > between plugin and browser, however there's no reason to assume zero > height and width and provide no temporal controls to users. The problem is that there is no reasonable width/height to assume, really. A further problem the last time I looked at this was that assuming something other than 0x0 actually broke web pages that relied on the IE6/IE7 behavior. > Also, perhaps we should consider addressing the plugin api problems > though incubating a new plugin architecture. Possibly, though this particular issue really could be solved by adding an API for intrinsic sizing to NPAPI in Gecko; there's been a bug on that for a while now. -Boris
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