[WSG] killing the object tag

2005-04-25 Thread Alan Trick
XHTML 2 is going to get rid of the tag, which I think is good. is a far better tag mainly because of it's fallback options, but the problem with object is that is has a very messed up history and as a result, it's practically impossible to use it for anything useful as long as your clients ar

RE: [WSG] killing the object tag

2005-04-25 Thread Richard Ishida
> What do you guys think of this? Is their somewhere I can > submit this too? >From http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml2-20040722/ "Public discussion may take place on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (archive). To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word subscribe in the subject line." hth

Re: [WSG] killing the object tag

2005-04-25 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Alan Trick wrote: XHTML 2 is going to get rid of the tag, which I think is good. [...] it's practically impossible to use it for anything useful as long as your clients are using IE. Alan, XHTML 2 is not meant to be backwards compatible. As IE doesn't officially support XHTML 2 at all (as, to

Re: [WSG] killing the object tag

2005-04-25 Thread Alan Trick
Thanks for the link Richard. I just looked one the www-html mailing list and there was an argument about this in 2003, but it kind of died in the middle without any resolution. I guess the biggest reason would be because I don't like to type a lot of extra code for no reason. esspecially with t

Re: [WSG] killing the object tag

2005-04-25 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Alan Trick wrote: When (if)? IE supports HTML it may still want to be able to support it's old buggy . Just look at all their CSS bugs they have in the name of 'backwards-compatibily' and 'consistancy'. But that's my point: XHTML 2 as a specification is not meant to be backwards compatible, so