- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:52:57 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Michael A. Puls II wrote: > > I hope the rendering part is clarified. Firefox collapses the embed's > width and height, which, by popularity, kind of makes Opera and Safari's > behavior unexpected. Yeah the rendering section is still to be written. > Here's how I would describe it: > > If you have a plugin that supports loading a resource sent as a mime > type other than the mime type specified in the type attribute that loads > the plugin, using the data attribute may produce undesired results. In > this case, it's better to omit the data attribute and use the <param> > the plugin looks for to find what resource to load. > > I'm sure you could turn that into something that reads better, but you > should get the point. Perhaps that belongs in an authoring guide though. I don't really want to make the conformance of the document depend on the user's configuration. :-) After all, the author doesn't know what plugins are available. I agree it might make sense in an authoring guide. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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