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February 20, 2007
Browser "embed" behavior
Browser "embed" behavior: I read the article at A List Apart by Bobby van der Sluis when it appeared, but I hadn't clicked through to the above test suite before. He examines 22 different tagging methods and specific features across 29 common browsers and examines a variety of behaviors, such as loss of streaming or plugin/browser messaging. I don't see effect on screenreaders tested here, but Andrew Kirkpatrick had a roundup 18 months ago. (Why are there problems? In 1995 Netscape 2.0 introduced browser extensions via EMBED tag... in 1996 Microsoft countered with system extensions via OBJECT tag... in 1997 W3C decided to outlaw EMBED without describing how the world might evolve to such a state... in 2007 we're still dealing with that old conflict.) I arrived here after checking a different formatting of such cross-browser testing from "Cubus" in Belgium. Part of me is appreciative these folks laid out such testing so clearly... part of me is annoyed that the whole model and history of browsers lends itself so easily to such chaos... but I'll think positive thoughts and thank Bobby, Geoff, Cubus and many others for their work here.
Posted by JohnDowdell at February 20, 2007 04:51 PM
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