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June 16, 2005
Browser OBJECT support
Browser OBJECT support: A few months back Geoff Stearns offered a handling for helping W3C validators not barf on realworld browsers' plugin markup (ie, use only OBJECT, no EMBED). What I didn't know until today was that the comments to his post went on and on, in the process accumulating a list of symptoms in various browsers where EMBED is not used. The Safari browser won't catch info from PARAMs... WMODE sometimes goes away... some DIV layout problems in some unspecified browsers... some reports of intermittent failure in Firefox... I haven't seen such reports collected in one place before; a useful resource. (The core problem here is that the HTML 4.0 specification abruptly threw out a few years' worth of realworld experience, instead of ratifying realworld experience -- that goal of validating to a (imho) somewhat flawed and unobservant (and unresponsive) spec is the crux of why everyone's jumping through all these hoops here.)
Posted by John Dowdell at June 16, 2005 5:12 PM