- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:20:31 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > > For <iframe> you want to support all types, and you want to show the > > contents for all the response codes, but they should show inside the > > frame regardless of the type. > > Really? Wouldn't it be better to show the fallback content of the > element? IMHO <iframe> should just be a special case of <object>. No, <iframe> is a browser window, it has to just be usable as a browser window. The fallback for <iframe> is only for browsers that don't support <iframe> at all. It would break the Web to do otherwise. > > For <embed> you want to show only things that require plugins, and > > only if they have 200 (or 301-200) responses. > > And what to do with the other things? "image/png" does not really require a > plugin but UAs will load QuickTime or so. Let me rephrase. <embed> should use a plugin to display the requested data. If there is no plugin available, it should display a placeholder, IIRC. (What exactly a plugin is is not defined by HTML5.) (Since <embed> wasn't in HTML4 we have to be careful with it, browser compatibility here is even more important than with other elements.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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