[whatwg] <embed> feedback

[Jonas Sicking]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen 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.

For what it's worth, there has been no "insisting" from us one way or 
another. The reason we didn't go with the hardcoded classids was that we 
didn't learn about them until late in the FF3 release cycle, at which 
point switching to that solution was too risky.

However we did think it was an interesting approach.

In general plugins are super hard to get correct. Pretty much any change 
we've made has broken sites. I suspect this part of the spec will have 
be updated once we look through it and compare to our implementations, 
as well as once we deploy whatever changes we make to be compatible with 
the spec.

/ Jonas