- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:30:30 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
<chair hat off> Hi Ian, On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > I would be happy to add the example Lachlan proposes. I object to > removing > the example being discussed. There are a number of examples of > <object> in > the spec, covering a variety of different ways of giving fallback: It seems like some of these examples are not approaches that we should be recommending to authors. In particular: > * showing not offering fallback at all > > * showing a useless comment typical on the Web, saying that the > plugin is > not installed or is disabled, with no proposed alternative > > * showing an honest message equivalent to the useless comment > mentioned > above (this is the one being objected to) What is the purpose of the above three examples? It seems like they would only be helpful as examples of what *not* to do. Are there other examples in the spec that illustrate a poor authoring practice? Regards, Maciej
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