- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:37:39 +0100
- To: Joe D Williams <joedwil@earthlink.net>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, public-html@w3.org
Joe D Williams, Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:36:37 -0800:
>> Of course, what HTML4 doesn't mention is that the object can also be
>> instantiated by removing the @declare attribute ...
> [...] I might have been way off, but it was @declare='string' [...]
Yes, you are off. @declare is a boolean attribute in HTML4.
There is no doubt that removing @declare will, according to HTML4, make
the OBJECT render. Let me quote the first example from "13.3.4 Object
declarations and instantiations" in full: [1]
[[
<P><OBJECT declare
id="earth.declaration"
data="TheEarth.mpeg"
type="application/mpeg">
The <STRONG>Earth</STRONG> as seen from space.
</OBJECT>
...later in the document...
<P>A neat <A href="#earth.declaration"> animation of The Earth!</A>
[[
There should be no reason to doubt that the OBJECT in this example
would render if @declare was removed.
[1]
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/objects.html#h-13.3.4
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leif halvard silli
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