- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@srl.rmit.EDU.AU>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 03:34:00 +1100 (EST)
- To: WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
The anybrowser component of OBJECT should be the fact that either the OBJECT is rendered or the content is presented instead. Otherwise the browser violates the basic principle of ignoring markup if it doesn't understand it. But there is certainly incosistency in which types of objects are rendered, and it is not clear why. It also seems very bug-ridden - testing it is the easiest way I have found of generating an intermittent terminal failure in a browser (MSIE4, NS4). I am going to try it out when I re-install Netscape (it died on me). I think Chuck Opperman was surprised that I had successfully used OBJECT in IE4 (sometimes). Charles McCathieNevile On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Al Gilman wrote: > Do we need to talk about this in the telephone call? > > >From the meeting in Peterborough I got the idea that OBJECT is > processed in incompatible ways in existing browsers. In ways so > there is no middle ground left, there is no "anybrowser" way to > write an OBJECT. > > Al
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