[whatwg] EMBED should not require src if type is specified.
Shadow2531
shadow2531 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 05:15:02 PDT 2007
As mentioned offtopic in
<http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-November/007936.html>,
just like OBJECT, for EMBED, the src attribute is not always needed
and sometimes it must not be present.
The best example for not requiring src is the tcl plug-in.
<http://shadow2531.com/opera/testcases/plugins/tcl/001.html>
<http://shadow2531.com/opera/testcases/plugins/tcl/001-a.html>
Also, Java can be loaded via the embed element where src is not needed.
<http://shadow2531.com/opera/testcases/plugins/java/007.html>
There are other cases with the Windows Media plug-in or with the
RealPlayer plug-in where just loading the plug-in with the type
attribute and doing scripting on the object is desirable.
There's also the neptune plug-in. For example: <embed
type="application/x-meadco-neptune-ax"
param-location="your-entry-page.htm">. In this case, it wants a
param-location param and not a src param.
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burnout426
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