[whatwg] <object> behavior
Andrew Oakley
andrew at ado.is-a-geek.net
Fri Aug 14 02:44:45 PDT 2009
>> - Should the type attribute take precedence over the Content-Type header?
>
> No, I believe what the spec says here is the preferred behaviour. Unless
> this is incompatible with legacy content, we should try to move towards
> this behaviour.
OK, should the spec mention the change that Boris Zbarsky said had been
made for Gecko? I guess this use makes up the majority of uses of
<object> on the web (although the Content-Type header should be set to
the same thing so it wouldn't normally matter). Presumably this would
also change the rules for when to instantiate a new plugin, given that
the current rules are essentially "whenever a different plugin or data
would be loaded".
I'm also confused about the criteria for creating a nested browsing context.
> - If the resource type is an XML MIME type
> - If the resource type is HTML
> - If the resource type does not start with "image/"
Does that mean:
- xml_mime_type OR html OR not_image
this is the same as xml_mime_type OR not_image
- xml_mime_type AND html AND not_image
this would be application/xhtml+xml, application/ce-html+xml etc. but
*not* text/html
- (xml_mime_type OR html) AND not_image
makes sense but would certainly need clarification in the spec
Thanks for clarifying the other bits of the <object> spec.
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Andrew Oakley
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