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Posted by David Dorward on 03/14/07 11:17
Toby A Inkster wrote:
> What I was a little unsure of was how browsers would react to an OBJECT
> element without a TYPE attribute. The TYPE attribute is technically
> optional, but it's recommended when a data attribute is present.
Doesn't Internet Explorer still have serious issues with object elements
(hence my comment about browser support)?
Time to test ...
IE7 says ... "This website wants to run the following add-on: 'Microsoft (R)
HTML Viewer' from 'Microsoft Corporation'. If you trust the website and the
add-on and want to allow it to run, click here..."
Clicking there gives me a menu and lets me pick "Run ActiveX control",
selecting that ...
.... and I get a dialog box. "Do you want to run this ActiveX control?"
I say "Run" and ...
The alternative text vanishes to be replaced by nothing at all.
If I try it with explicit height and width specified then ... it draws a box
of the right dimensions, slaps an inset border on the edge, then scales the
image down to fit in the space left, and gives the image a black
background.
hmm, and if I refresh I see a brief flash of the Quicktime logo.
Hang on. Quicktime? That isn't "Microsoft (R) HTML Viewer"
Oh boy. Internet Explorer truly is a world class piece of software.
The good news is that the lack of a type attribute doesn't seem to make any
difference for IE.
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