- From: Jeff Walden <jwalden+whatwg@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:46:35 -0600
http://biesi.damowmow.com/object/011.html Firefox 2 shows FAIL. Firefox 3 currently shows PASS. WebKit nightly shows a broken image icon. Opera 9.25 shows PASS. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-embedded0.html#the-object For the moment ignoring that WebKit's using @type instead of the server-sent type of the <object> producing the PASS/FAIL/icon (contrary to current HTML5 and HTTP RFC 2616), it seems that WebKit isn't displaying fallback content when the primary content contains "errors" -- malformed images, in this case -- where recent Firefox and Opera are. The spec doesn't currently address falling back for malformed content, i.e. malformed images, invalid XML (maybe?), content a plugin handler declines to handle (?, dunno whether this is expressible in NPAPI or ActiveX or whether that question's too implementation-dependent), etc. I tend to think it should since a broken-image icon's not particularly useful, but I don't care strongly one way or the other. Jeff
Received on Monday, 31 December 2007 23:46:35 UTC