[whatwg] <object> behavior
Michael A. Puls II
shadow2531 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 16 03:48:30 PDT 2009
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:19:04 -0400, Simon Pieters <simonp at opera.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:10:35 +0200, Michael A. Puls II
> <shadow2531 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:28:46 -0400, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> There was also some discussion of what to do about preventing a plugin
>>> instantiating. It seems to me that authors can do that by not creating
>>> the
>>> <object> element ahead of time.
>>
>> And, if it's desired to specify the <object> via parsed markup (as
>> opposed to doing it all with JS), one can omit @type and @data so
>> things don't load and add them later like so:
>>
>> <object style="display: none"
>> data-load-on-demand-type="application/x-java-applet" id="test">
>> <param name="code" value="MyJavaClass">
>> fallback
>> </object>
>>
>> <script>
>> window.onload = function() {
>> var obj = document.getElementById("test");
>> obj.style.display = "inline-block";
>> obj.type = obj.dataset["load-on-demand-type"];
>> alert("Come alive! Hide your fallback! I command you!");
>> };
>> </script>
>
> "One or both of the data and type attributes must be present." says the
> spec.
Oops. Right. Forgot about that.
> <embed> doesn't seem to have the same requirement for src and type.
> (Also compare with img, iframe, video...)
>
--
Michael
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