- From: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:22:08 -0400
Gareth Hay wrote: > I don't see the problem with this. > > Object is a tag to represent just about anything, even text/html > renders in an object. > Can you identify a use case where you *need* to know before you get a > content-type header? Sure. What happens if you're taking old videos of a page because you moved them to a site like YouTube? How would you tell them apart from other content in the page that might require <object>, like SVG graphics and such? For that matter, if the file fails to load, you don't have a MIME type at all, so what kind of presentation would a broken video have on the page if you don't even have a MIME type to tell you it's a video? If you have a <video> element, it could just give you a broken film icon.
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