On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Nicholas Zakas <[email protected]> wrote: > Just curious if anyone knows why <img src=""> is the exception in the > spec, rather than having the same behavior for all elements that > download resources on page load? As far as I can tell, the spec would > currently allow self-referencing downloads for the following elements: > > * <iframe> > * <embed> > * <object> > * <video> > * <audio> > * <source>
As stated. If the other browser vendors are ok with it, I'm ok with making the empty string mean "don't load" in all these cases. I.e. treat an empty src/href attribute the same way as an absence of the attribute (except for <script> which still wouldn't treat it as an inline script). / Jonas
