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This was was cloned from bug 16136 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2012-02-27 16:46:00 +0000 ================================================================================ #0 contributor@whatwg.org 2012-02-27 16:46:54 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-iframe-element.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-embed-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-embed-element Comment: Requiring a "plugin" for <embed> is not compatible with <embed> pointing to SVG Posted from: 71.184.125.56 by bzbarsky@mit.edu User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:13.0a1) Gecko/20120218 Firefox/13.0a1 ================================================================================ #1 Boris Zbarsky 2012-02-27 16:50:32 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specifically, I believe <embed> pointing to SVG creates a child browsing context in browsers, whereas the current spec text requires that no child browsing context ever be created for <embed>.... Gecko's behavior for <embed> is that it's only handled via plug-ins (in the "no child browsing context" sense, though they also happen to be NPAPI plug-ins) except for "image/svg+xml" when it creates a child browsing context. I haven't tested other browsers extensively to see what their behavior is. ================================================================================
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