[whatwg] <object> behavior

[Michael A. Puls II]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:49:11 -0400, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:

> On 9/18/09 6:35 PM, Michael A. Puls II wrote:
>> The reason I ask is that if existing web pages use multiple <object>'s
>> that load videos for example, that are initially set to display: none
>> and only shown later, then if browsers start fetching all these files as
>> soon as the page loads
>
> They already have to do that, and will continue to, because the HTTP  
> headers from the response are needed to determine how to handle the data.

Actually. I see more what you're saying now. But, I wasn't totally clear  
before.

See the attached.

In Opera and Safari, display: none acts like a defer for both <object>  
(one a text/html page, the other a flash page) where there's no network  
activity until you change the display from none. So, they don't do any  
determining until after you change the display. It's like a dead <object>  
at first.

Now, in IE and Firefox on the other hand, they do indeed request things  
right away like you say. I somehow missed that IE and Firefox did that.

I was concerned that making browsers (only Opera and Safari now) change  
that defer behavior would badly affect web pages. But, if IE and Firefox  
already make requests when the display is none, I guess it's O.K. for  
Safari and Opera to do so too. Although, I think I like Opera and Safari's  
behavior better.

At any rate, would definitely like to see browsers align on all this stuff.

-- 
Michael
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