[whatwg] <object> behavior

Michael A. Puls II shadow2531 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 22:09:15 PDT 2009


On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:13:46 -0400, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:

> Michael A. Puls II wrote:
>> I'm trying to remember. Did you also say that FF makes some use of  
>> display: none for fallback content
>
> It does not, but it does make use of lack of CSS boxes...
>
>> and that if FF was fixed so display:none didn't affect plug-in  
>> instantiation, both plug-ins in the following would load at the same  
>> time?
>>  <object type="application/x-some-plugin">
>>     <object type="application/x-some-plugin"></object>
>> </object>
>
> If the plugin instantiation were done entirely via the DOM, then yes,  
> unless something prevented that from happening.
>
>> Also, is it considered a bug just for <object>, or <embed> too?
>
> I'd think both.

Thanks

-- 
Michael



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