clarification on object-tag?

In <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html> 

| 13.3.1 Rules for rendering objects
| 
| A user agent must interpret an OBJECT element according to the
| following precedence rules:
| 
| 1. The user agent must first try to render the object. It should not
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^
|    render the element's contents, 

seems to imply that it is ok (but not recommended) for a user agent to
render the object _and_ its content. (Internet Explorer5/Mac does this)

The rest of 13.3.1 (esp. the example with 3 nested objects) relies on
the fact that the content of an object is rendered only if the object
itself is not rendered.


greetings
Rainer Kupke

P.S.:
Example under <http://homepage.mac.com/rkupke/test/test.html>

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Received on Monday, 29 January 2001 11:31:26 UTC