Shadow2531 wrote:
I'd like to see the steps spelled out *exactly* because HTML 4.01 does not do that.
Yes. That's what this thread is all about.
If classid and data are both present, Firefox ignores the data and gives the classid a shot. If there's no activex plug-in installed that handles the clsid, Firefox fails and goes to alternate content.
You mean "type", not "data", right? And actually, all non-java classids just make Firefox show the alternate content, unless you have the optional ActiveX stuff installed.
It looks like you're saying that people that target the activeX method don't want to fall back on the NPAPI method. But, what if an author wants to? You'd probably say to use alternate content and another object tag or embed tag.
Yep. That's the whole point of <object> having alternate content.
However, I think it'd be neat to fall back (or give the option through an attribute or something to fall back ) on the data off the current object element.
Why reinvent the wheel? There is already a way of doing fallback with <object>.
Opera doesn't do classid stuff (except for java) so it can ignore the classid and use data.
In my opinion, this is a bug in Opera; one they introduced to be more compatible with IE in many cases (and that breaks other cases, sometimes badly).
-Boris
