>
> May I ask why this knowledge wasn’t shared with the group? We
could (for
> example) have standardized the ‘src’ param in WebCGM 2.1
>
> From: Don Larson [mailto:dlarson@cgmlarson.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 10:25 AM
> To: Bezaire, Benoit; cgmo-webcgm@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: re: [cgmo-webcgm] Problem with OBJECT and PARAM tags
>
> Benoit
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > It has come to our attention that IE has a limitation
related to the
> > <object> ‘data’ attribute and <PARAM>
elements. Our implementation
> > (COleControl ActiveX) is passed in corrupted data when
both the ‘data’
> > attribute is specified on the <object> tag and when
<PARAM> elements are
> > also specified.
> >
> > According to Microsoft, HTML 4 doesn’t state that an
implementation (of
> > HTML) has to pass all values (‘data’ attribute,
<PARAM>s) simultaneously
> > to the ActiveX. Either ‘data’ without <PARAM> is
used; or <PARAM>s
> without
> > the ‘data’ attribute is used.
> >
> > Which means that WebCGM’s example (shown below) doesn’t
work with a
> > standard ActiveX implementation:
> > <script type="application/ecmascript">
<![CDATA[
> > function myHandler(evt)
> > {
> > // performs DOM manipulation calls...
> > }
> > ]]>
> > </script>
> > [...]
> > <object data=""xxx.cgm""
type="image/cgm;Version=4;ProfileId=WebCGM"
> > width="200" height="100">
> > <param name="onload" value="myHandler(evt);"/>
> > </object>
> >
> > Are other Windows vendors aware of this? Do other vendors
use
> > DoPropExchange to get the <PARAM>s?
> >
>
> We are somewhat aware ofproblem in using"DATA" to
get the cgmfile stream.
>
> We are still using DoPropExchange to getcgm file viaPARAM and
SRC keyword.
>
> > There is possibly a workaround that can be implemented in
ActiveX
> > implementation (not tested yet), but that being said,
maybe we want to
> put
> > some thoughts in how to use the OBJECT tag in a properly
supported IE
> way.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Benoit
> >
>
> Regards,
> Don Larson
> Larson Software Technology
> Tel: (713)977.4177 ext. 102
> www.cgmlarson.com