[whatwg] <object> behavior

[Michael A. Puls II]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:28:46 -0400, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Michael A. Puls II wrote:
>>
>> O.K., so put simply, HTML5 should explicitly mention that the css
>> display property for <object>, <embed> (and <applet> in the handling
>> section) has absolutely no effect on plug-in instantiation and
>> destroying and has absolutely no effect on @src and @data resource
>> fetching.
>>
>> HTML5 could also be extra clear by example that display: none doesn't
>> destroy, or prevent the creation of, the plug-in instance and that
>> changing the display value doesn't destroy the instance.
>>
>> Lastly, HTML5 could briefly mention that what the plug-in does when its
>> window/area is not displayed because of display: none, is plug-in and
>> plug-in API dependent.
>
> I've added a note to this effect.

Also see <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90268#c68>. Should  
probably add a note in the spec that the css overflow and position  
properties don't affect instantiation/destroying etc. (might as well add  
visibility too). And, after that, it'd probably be best to note that css  
in general doesn't affect instantiation/destroying (to avoid having to  
keep on adding CSS properties to the list)

Something like this:

Note: The above algorithm is independent of CSS. For example, it runs even  
if the element is hidden or out-of-view because of the 'display',  
'position', 'visibility' and 'overflow' properties.

Further, changing the value of any CSS property does not cause the above  
algorithm to run again on the element. For example, changing the element's  
'display' property from 'inline-block' to 'none' does not destroy the  
loaded resource.

-- 
Michael