- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:11:48 +0100
- To: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Cc: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, www-html@w3.org
Quoting Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>: >> The type attribute, if used to express the Internet media type (MIME >> type), reflects a wrong approach. The media type is to be known and >> announced by the server that delivers the object. The embedding >> document should just reserve space for the object (and contain >> fallback content to >> be presented when the object is not available) > > Afaik, the type attribute (or whatever its name may be) in this case > means to indicate what types it accepts. So supposedly <object > src="bla.html" type="image/*">fallback content</object> would result > in the fallback content being shown, unless the server associates the > .html extension with an image/ type. Really? I hope that's not true. Looking at the definition of "srctype"[1] (heck, had it to be renamed?) you might be right. I'd say it is very underdefined though. [1]<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-embedding.html#adef_embedding_srctype> -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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