I find this very amusing as before the <applet> tag there was just the <object> tag...So now we're reverting!
Jonathan On Jul 14, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Angel Herráez wrote: > Bob is probably more knowledgeable than me, but this is how I see things: > > If you have the HTML4 doctype in the header, the browsers will interpret as > such. No problem > with <applet>. After all, this tag is already deprecated in 4.01, but the > browsers respect it. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#h-13.4 > says > "APPLET is deprecated (with all its attributes) in favor of OBJECT." > > Only pages with the HTML5 doctype (which, BTW, is absolutely simple: > <!DOCTYPE HTML> > ) may produce the reject --and I bet that the browsers will still render it, > since they tend to be > conservative and forgiving. > Maybe pages without any header will be interpreted by browsers as HTML5 by > default in the > future and so break. > > I don't think it is a question of pages stop working, but rather of start > coding better for the > future. > > And Jmol.js takes care of inserting the proper tag (currently, <object> if > the detected browser > supports it). <applet> remains only in pages coded manually. > > > On another line, my former comment in this thread was trying to decide > whether we must > remove the pages from the website that give examples that use applet tag. Or > maybe rewrite > it to use object tags? > That's mainly http://jmol.sourceforge.net/scripting/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-developers mailing list > Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow Chemistry Department gu...@uwosh.edu UW-Oshkosh Office: 920-424-1326 800 Algoma Boulevard FAX:920-424-2042 Oshkosh, WI 54901 http://www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/gutow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
