- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:35:22 +0300
- To: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Cc: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On May 3, 2010, at 17:55, Toby Inkster wrote: > I was thinking of using <object> in <head> as a way of embedding RDFa > or microdata without disturbing the appearance of the page. That doesn't seem like a legitimate use case of <object> to me. Rather, it seems like a way of exploiting the limitations of DTD-based validation. If you are using <object> for a purpose other than embedding an external resource, you are misusing <object> that already does too many things. > Filing a bug against html5-diffs seems to beg the bigger question of > whether <object> should be allowed inside <head>. I can't find any > record of this having been discussed - the HTML5 draft spec seems to > have just accepted the behaviour of Opera, Gecko and WebKit, even > though it goes against the HTML 4 specification, and against Internet > Explorer's behaviour. What HTML 4 said doesn't really matter. What Opera, Gecko, WebKit and IE do does. When there's a 3 vs. 1 situation with 3 on the side of parser simplicity, I think the spec should follow the 3. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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