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August 15, 2006
Validity and reality
Validity and reality: At Web Standards Project, Ben Henick links together three articles about invoking rich content across browsers in W3C-approved ways. The difficulty is that the HTML spec outlawed EMBED tags after they were in use for a few years, and post-bubble browser development didn't take up the slack... the world's deployed browsers never gracefully handled that mid-flight change in expectations. Use of an OBJECT tag alone generally handles simple browser visibility now, but the browser makers still don't document if this invocation handles compositing (wmode), communication (npruntime), streaming, printing, other features beyond mere appearance. It's one of the legacies of this "single spec, multiple implementations" approach -- we need to test new work against the range of possible user agents to make sure they do as we actually expect. I appreciate that Ben has linked these three together, but I'm not sure that any of them give readers the full picture... testing carefully before deployment should fill in the gaps.
Posted by JohnDowdell at August 15, 2006 05:20 PM
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Posted by: Geoff at August 18, 2006 07:28 AM