127963 - object tag without type attribute should be displayed anyway

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 96579

(Core :: Layout, defect, P4)

Description

[David Anderson]

I have been able to show relative urls within an object tag, but I get a blank
when trying the same with an absolute ( and remote ) urls...

ie does fine with it, though.

What's up with that?  ( See url for test case. )

Comment 1

[David Anderson]

Also, if I look at the Media tab of the page info ( of the given url ), Moz
spins into some kind of infinite loop...

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

You left off the (required) "type" attribute of <object>.  Simply adding
type="text/html" makes things work.

Comment 3

[David Anderson]

I added the content="text/html" attribute to the object tag in the url.

It did not change the page...

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There is no "content" attribute for <object>  There is a "type" attribute.  You
want

type="text/html"

Comment 5

[David Anderson]

My embarrassed apologies...

Yeah, it works with the appropriate type attribute set...

Comment 6

[David Anderson]

I've changed the contents of the url to show a working remote url reference, a
non-working url reference, 

So, this bug reduces to

1. Why does the object tag display a local page via the object tag when the type
attribute isn't set, but doesn't display a remote page when the type attribute
isn't set?

2. I get into trouble when I go to the Media tab in page info.

3. There should be some text ( alt?, data? ) in the blank area of the object (
that cannot be displayed because the type is left off, if that is the issue...  )

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Why does the object tag display a local page via the object tag when the type
> attribute isn't set, but doesn't display a remote page when the type attribute
> isn't set?

Because if type is not set we fall back on the extension of the "data"
attribute.  In your case the "local" page has an extension that is relevant, the
"remote" one does not.  Making that link be to
"http://www.mozilla.org/index.html" works.

Granted, we should consider fetching the data anyway, even if we don't know the
type up front...

> I get into trouble when I go to the Media tab in page info.

Bug 122055

> There should be some text ( alt?, data? ) in the blank area of the object

That is almost certainly bug 96976

Over to layout to make a call on item #1.

Comment 8

[Christine Hoffman]

Changing QA contact

Comment 9

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

bz: the type attribute is _not_ required per spec, and the HTTP Content-Type
header overrides it in any case.

Comment 10

[Jonas Jørgensen]

?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96579 ***

Comment 11

[Moied]

verified dup of 96579