[html5] r3968 - [e] (0) Say what the infinite attributes on <embed> are for. Fixing http://www.w [...]

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Author: ianh
Date: 2009-09-22 04:19:21 -0700 (Tue, 22 Sep 2009)
New Revision: 3968

Modified:
   index
   source
Log:
[e] (0) Say what the infinite attributes on <embed> are for.
Fixing http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7576

Modified: index
===================================================================
--- index	2009-09-22 11:04:35 UTC (rev 3967)
+++ index	2009-09-22 11:19:21 UTC (rev 3968)
@@ -20302,7 +20302,8 @@
   <code><a href=#the-embed-element>embed</a></code> element, so long as its name is
   <a href=#xml-compatible>XML-compatible</a> and contains no characters in the range
   U+0041 .. U+005A (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER
-  Z).</p>
+  Z). These attributes are then passed as parameters to the
+  <a href=#plugin>plugin</a>.</p>
 
   <p class=note>All attributes in <a href=#html-documents>HTML documents</a> get
   lowercased automatically, so the restriction on uppercase letters
@@ -20343,6 +20344,18 @@
    plug-in vendor doesn't support the user's platform), then the user
    will be unable to use the resource.</p>
 
+   <p>To pass the plugin a parameter "quality" with the value "high",
+   an attribute can be specified:</p>
+
+   <pre><embed src="catgame.swf" quality="high"></pre>
+
+   <p>This would be equivalent to the following, when using an
+   <code><a href=#the-object-element>object</a></code> element instead:</p>
+
+   <pre><object data="catgame.swf">
+ <param name="quality" value="high">
+</object></pre>
+
   </div>
 
 

Modified: source
===================================================================
--- source	2009-09-22 11:04:35 UTC (rev 3967)
+++ source	2009-09-22 11:19:21 UTC (rev 3968)
@@ -21764,7 +21764,8 @@
   <code>embed</code> element, so long as its name is
   <span>XML-compatible</span> and contains no characters in the range
   U+0041 .. U+005A (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER
-  Z).</p>
+  Z). These attributes are then passed as parameters to the
+  <span>plugin</span>.</p>
 
   <p class="note">All attributes in <span>HTML documents</span> get
   lowercased automatically, so the restriction on uppercase letters
@@ -21807,6 +21808,18 @@
    plug-in vendor doesn't support the user's platform), then the user
    will be unable to use the resource.</p>
 
+   <p>To pass the plugin a parameter "quality" with the value "high",
+   an attribute can be specified:</p>
+
+   <pre><embed src="catgame.swf" quality="high"></pre>
+
+   <p>This would be equivalent to the following, when using an
+   <code>object</code> element instead:</p>
+
+   <pre><object data="catgame.swf">
+ <param name="quality" value="high">
+</object></pre>
+
   </div>