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Bug 7367 - The HTMLEmbedElement interface needs to have the name and align DOM attributes as well. Web browsers do too.
Summary: The HTMLEmbedElement interface needs to have the name and align DOM attribute...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/curr...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: NE, NoReply
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-08-19 08:01 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:29 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-08-19 08:01:12 UTC 
Section: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-embed-element

Comment:
The HTMLEmbedElement interface needs to have the name and align DOM attributes as well. Web browsers do too.

Posted from: 83.85.115.44
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-09-19 21:58:07 UTC 
The spec defines how name="" and align="" affect <embed>, but it doesn't encourage their use for that purpose, since they're redundant with id="" and CSS.

I didn't list them in the "obsolete" section because they're conforming for other reasons (all attributes on <embed> are), and I figured it'd be confusing to list them there while they still didn't raise an error, and since <embed> wasn't in HTML4 anyway, there wasn't any theoretical reason to include them.

So I'm not sure what to do here.
Comment 2 Anne 2009-09-20 00:50:48 UTC 
The problem is that these two attributes are lacking on the IDL interface. Most browsers support these two attributes so ("align" in <embed>) etc. will be true. As far as I could tell these were the only two missing.
Comment 3 contributor 2009-09-20 11:39:12 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r3920.
Check-in comment: Add some legacy HTMLEmbedElement IDL attributes.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3919&to=3920
Comment 4 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 14:49:44 UTC 
This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

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