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Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-embed-element Comment: <embed hspace> and <embed vspace> should not be allowed Posted from: 220.210.139.122
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: How would you pass parameters named "hspace" or "vspace" to an <embed>ded plugin if you couldn't use those attributes?
How do you pass parameters named "name" to an <embed>ed plugin? If you need parameters named 'name', 'vspace' or 'hspace', you can use <object>.
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4969. Check-in comment: Nuke <embed hspace> and <embed vspace> also. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4968&to=4969