[whatwg] Fallback behavior

I am not sure what Ian means.  M.S.'s description at
<http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-March/010043.html>
he seems to be opposing is definitive, exhaustive and that is what Internet
Explorer?7 does.  Scripts attached to elements included in supported objects
do not run.  An unsupported object gets nuked and replaced with its content.
Chris

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[mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Ian Hickson
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To: Maciej Stachowiak; L. David Baron; Martin Atkins; Anne van Kesteren;
Mihai Sucan
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Subject: Re: [whatwg] Fallback behavior

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> Not sure. Should
> 
>   <object data=foo>
>     <img src=bar onload=alert('x')>
> 
> show a modal dialog?

Yes.


On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Mihai Sucan wrote:
> 
> No, it should not.

It's too late to change this, browsers uniformly do it the same way.

Received on Wednesday, 20 August 2008 06:59:17 UTC