- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:12:42 +0100
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
Jonas Sicking 2009-03-26 19.57: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Leif Halvard Silli ... > Unfortunately there seems to be enough advantages with > falling back to <embed> that people do it anyway. Those advantages > being that you can often (at least in old browsers) get the plugin you > are trying to use working, even if it didn't work in the <object>. Evidence, please. "Old browsers" is very general. I think I have shown that one can use <object> cross-browser without leaving out IE6. At least for Flash. And Quicktime: http://www.malform.no/html5/object+video/ > Hopefully this can be reduced if newer browsers support <object> better. > > As Boris said. I think a new thread should be created with specific > suggestions for changes we want to the HTML5 draft. For example > deprecating <embed>. Yup - just need need to collect myself first. -- leif halvard silli
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