- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:42:19 -0500
- To: Style Sheet mailing list <www-style@w3.org>, HTML mailing list <www-html@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 09:53 AM 26/11/97 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote: >On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Todd Fahrner wrote: > >> Benjamin Franz wrote, at 8:46 -0800 on 26.11.97: >> >> I agree mostly about stylesheets, and generally about the need for >> improvement, but my tests suggest that you can use OBJECT markup today in a >> highly degradable (universally pre-degraded?) way for some cases at least. >> In the example above, everybody but IE4 sees just normal links to the >> referenced HTML objects, and in this instance >> <http://www.verso.com/agitprop/scale/> you see either the Flash object or a >> GIF and some marked-up text telling you what you're missing. > >Except in the low x NS4.0x browsers where the stuff between <OBJECT> >and </OBJECT> just disappears completely and you get...nothing. And in the >MSIE 3.X browsers you get assailed with 'Insecure ActiveX' alerts and then >it hangs. MSIE4 includes a similar warning when ActiveX is disabled. Specifically, it cries that "An ActiveX control on this page is not safe. Your current security settings prohibit running unsafe controls on this page. As a result, this page may not display as intended." FWIW, it does the exact same thing with Java applets when Java is disabled. Looks like IE4 doesn't trust authors to write gracefully degrading pages, so they don't let them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNHx7mvP8EtNrypTwEQKTlQCg+Ql0/EJv6U7Q4fVOLWdvgLP+sL8AniND w0oyfwlTMM81HAMm4jR7nBMO =RjH0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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