- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:04:10 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Quoting David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>: >> <embed> is much more interoperably implemented for embedding media >> that requires plugins. > > Vendors seem to be waking up to standards, perhaps it is about time they > implemented object better. Patricularly now that most browser vendors are represented on the WHATWG, it would be the perfect time to see if object can't be implemented in a saner kind of way. Admittedly I haven't looked into what the implementation issues with object are that were hinted at before, but naively I would have thought that it would be possible to get plugins to expose their API in a consistent way and then allow browsers to hook into those via the object? i.e. get standardisation of interfaces at plugin level, after defining a superset of interfaces that are expected at browser level? P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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