- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 01:05:30 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Christian Biesinger wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > Yeah, what's a plugin and what isn't is a UA thing, so if the UA > > decides that its PNG and SVG "plugins" happen to be native support, > > well, that's what it is. (Both PNG and SVG are recognised by Mozilla's > > <embed> because at one point they were plugin-only in IE and so people > > would use <embed> instead of <img>/<object> and so when Mozilla moved > > to native implemen- tations for those types, it kept <embed> working > > for compatiblility.) > > BTW, Mozilla supports all its image formats in <embed>. That's allowed, it just means the "plugin" is the browser itself. > How can you drop <applet> if you want to be compatible with the current > web? Much the same way we can drop <center>: even though it's not valid in HTML5, it doesn't mean browsers won't support it. It's possible that it will be mentioned in the Rendering section (which I don't plan to write until the end of the process). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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