- From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:06:02 -0800 (PST)
- To: Style Sheet mailing list <www-style@w3.org>, HTML mailing list <www-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, 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. Whups. Scratch that on the low x NS4.0x. It was the MSIE 4.0b browsers with ActiveX turned off that made the content vanish (I went back and checked my old mail - I reported this to the www-html list back in May). I haven't tried it in the MSIE 4.0 final yet. -- Benjamin Franz
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