- From: Michael A. Puls II <shadow2531@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:03:11 -0500
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:52:57 -0500, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > 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. O.K. cool. > I agree it might make sense in an authoring guide. > O.K. cool Thanks -- Michael
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