Re: [whatwg] embed feedback

2008-11-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Michael A. Puls II wrote: I see When the element is created with neither a src attribute nor a type attribute, and when attributes are removed such that neither attribute is present on the element anymore, any plugins instantiated for the element must be removed, and

[whatwg] embed feedback

2008-07-24 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: Apparently, the Gecko plug-in folks *still* insist on ignoring objects with MS-style classids instead of special-casing the common ones and mapping them to Netscape-style plug-ins or even using the data attribute if present. Opera at least uses the

Re: [whatwg] embed feedback

2008-07-24 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 24 Jul 2008, at 10:12 am, Ian Hickson wrote: On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Shadow2531 wrote: If text/plain is sent, I expect it to fail unless you have a text/ plain plug-in installed. Even then though, the video wouldn't play because it'd be a text/plain plug-in, not a video plug-in.. However,

Re: [whatwg] embed feedback

2008-07-24 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Nicholas Shanks wrote: On 24 Jul 2008, at 10:12 am, Ian Hickson wrote: On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Shadow2531 wrote: If text/plain is sent, I expect it to fail unless you have a text/plain plug-in installed. Even then though, the video wouldn't play because it'd be

Re: [whatwg] embed feedback

2008-07-24 Thread Michael A. Puls II
On Sat, 13 May 2006, Shadow2531 wrote: On 4/26/06, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't envisage keeping applet around unless someone can specify it in enough detail and give a convincing case for its inclusion. At the least, Opera and Firefox can not expose java methods in an

Re: [whatwg] embed feedback

2008-07-24 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Ian Hickson wrote: Apparently, the Gecko plug-in folks *still* insist on ignoring objects with MS-style classids instead of special-casing the common ones and mapping them to Netscape-style plug-ins or even using the data attribute if present. Opera at least uses the data attribute.