- From: Shadow2531 <shadow2531@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:38:25 -0500
On 11/7/06, Shadow2531 <shadow2531 at gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/6/06, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote: > > Hi, > > Should the data attribute be required for <object>? > > No. > > Reason 1: > <object classid="java:MyJavaClass"></object> is used for Java. ( > Although I'd love to have <object type="application/java" > data="file.class"></object> work, but ...) > > Reason 2: > You might want to load a plugin like this: <object > type="application/x-mplayer2"></object> and later use scripting to > tell the plugin to get the resource. If the data attribute is > required, you'd be forced to load a resource that you didn't want to. > > Reason 3: > The tcl plugin <http://www.tcl.tk/software/plugin/> suports inline > scripts via a script param and things like the following need to work > with the data attribute. > > <object type="application/x-tcl"> > <param name="script" value="script content"> > </object> Note that the embed element should not require the src attribute for the same reasons. For example, this needs to be be allowed: <embed type="application/x-java-applet" code="MyJavaClass"> -- burnout426
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