Boris Zbarsky wrote:
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.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106065#c1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46569
The spec now effectively requires the Mozilla behaviour.
Which behavior, exactly? There have been at least 4 different behaviors
in Gecko for <embed> in the last year, and frankly I'd been considering
special-casing some common classids the way webkit does and removing the
latest layer of cruft we added to deal with compat issues (the "don't
use the server type if there is a type attribute that's a supported
plug-in type" business). I assume that we're talking about <object>
here, by the way, not <embed>, since <embed> has no data attribute and
doesn't use classid.
Another fun fact was that one of the few sites that broke last we were
mucking around with this was apple.com.
Had we been able to get that changed it's entirely possible that we
would have been able to remove a few hacks.
:)
/ Jonas
