- From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:27:52 +0000
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 21:33, David Woolley wrote: | > <object type="image/svg+xml" data="someSVGimage"> | > <img src="plainPng" alt="examples can be dull" /> | > <object> | | Strictly this should be: | | <object type="image/svg+xml" data="someSVGimage"> | <object type="image/png" data="plainPng"> | examples can be dull | </object> | <object> This should be: <object type="image/svg" data="someSVGimage"> <object type="image/png" data="plainPng"> examples can be dull </object> <object> I just wonder why people want to support non-standard type="image/svg+xml" I understand that Adobe introduced this non-standard "image type", but this is some kind of trick like Microsoft did to tie people to Windows. type *is* "image/svg", not "image/svg+xml" or "image/svg-xml!" ! Please do not support such broken practice! | | however, the implementation of object is so poor, after all it has been | in the standard for only 4 years now, that the first one is safer. | | As hinted at in Jon's question on www-svg, people are actually advised to | use the, proprietory, element "embed" for SVG, because of the poor object | implementations. If you want to support Netscape Navigator 4.x than you have to use IMG. Otherwise, recent Mozilla/Netscape 6.x build have rather good support for OBJECT. So if you can afford to force all users of your web site to upgrade to Mozilla or Netscape 6.2 (on Windows platform, or on Mac), than better use OBJECT. I still wonder what Authoring Tools can generate OBJECT for gif, png and jpeg images (at least). As far as I know, all tools from *major* companies use IMG. as about EMBED used instead of OBJECT - yes, Adobe tends to use this tag on their site heavily (http://www.adove.com/svg). So, Adobe contributes in this case to Bad Practice, bringing more confusion than innovation. There is no excuse for that. But their sales already dropped by 30% last quarter - so probably we don't have to wait too much until that practice stopped :-) -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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