- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:19:04 +0200
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:10:35 +0200, Michael A. Puls II
<shadow2531 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:28:46 -0400, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>
>> There was also some discussion of what to do about preventing a plugin
>> instantiating. It seems to me that authors can do that by not creating
>> the
>> <object> element ahead of time.
>
> And, if it's desired to specify the <object> via parsed markup (as
> opposed to doing it all with JS), one can omit @type and @data so things
> don't load and add them later like so:
>
> <object style="display: none"
> data-load-on-demand-type="application/x-java-applet" id="test">
> <param name="code" value="MyJavaClass">
> fallback
> </object>
>
> <script>
> window.onload = function() {
> var obj = document.getElementById("test");
> obj.style.display = "inline-block";
> obj.type = obj.dataset["load-on-demand-type"];
> alert("Come alive! Hide your fallback! I command you!");
> };
> </script>
"One or both of the data and type attributes must be present." says the
spec.
<embed> doesn't seem to have the same requirement for src and type. (Also
compare with img, iframe, video...)
--
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
Received on Friday, 16 October 2009 03:19:04 UTC