- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:20:38 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > > Now that classid is gone, what will be the workaround for ActiveX > objects where they are needed? ActiveX controls are a vendor-specific technology, and thus not appropriate for explicit support in HTML5 (just like we dropped <applet>). The real workaround is "use HTML, CSS, JS, DOM", or, if you really need a plugin, use a type that triggers the right plugin. > 2. Use a custom DTD with classid for validation? That doesn't make the document valid. > 3. Use a custom type "application/vnd.acme-fancy-control+oleobject" > for every control? Yes. > Of course, such things are inherently nonportable but they are widely > used. It would be nice to have a way to validate them. You can. If you use it the validator will tell you you're doing something non-portable. This is intentional! -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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