276359 - data attribute of object tag returns bogus values

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[bulk88]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: 

When I set the data attribute on a object tag to "" in javascript in IE5, when 
I read it back, its "". When I do it in Moz 1.7.3 it gives me  back the page 
URL. Using view-selection source, in moz, proves that it the attribute did get 
changed to  "" BTW. This is some kind of bug. See the page or attachment (they 
are the same thing) for an example.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[bulk88]

Attachment: demostrates data attribute bug of object tag

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

I think this is invalid (IE does the wrong thing, we do the right thing). The
.data DOM attribute gives you the actual URI. If you want to know what the
actual content attribute's value is, you have to use getAttribute('data').

Comment 3

[bulk88]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I think this is invalid (IE does the wrong thing, we do the right thing). The
> .data DOM attribute gives you the actual URI. If you want to know what the
> actual content attribute's value is, you have to use getAttribute('data').
Then maybe this behaviour should only be corrected in quirks mode.

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

What major sites are affected by this?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There's no reason to have a quirk for this that I can see.