[whatwg] <object> behavior

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Mon Sep 21 05:24:37 PDT 2009


On 9/20/09 3:54 PM, 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.

Imo, yes.  Especially given your HTML example, where the behavior 
difference is easy to stumble on by trying to get the contentDocument of 
the <object> and work with it.

-Boris



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