WaSP Asks the W3C

Adding Multimedia in Web Documents (part 2)

Testing the Browsers for object element

Test Reporting Template

We have created a few tests to help you to establish the level of implementation of the object element in each user agent. You are welcome to report the results to the [email protected] mailing list (publicly archived). Use the email subject of "[object] Test Report - (User Agent Name and version)" where "User Agent Name" and "version" is the browser and its version you have tested with. When reporting implementation results, ensure that all requested information is included. Without this information the test will be useless. You might want to use the following template:

Date: 
OS Version: (Name and version)
User Agent: (Name and version)

Test URI: 
Result: Y, N, B
Comments: 

• Y: Yes, the test has passed as expected.
• N: No, the test has failed.
• B: Buggy, the test has passed somehow, but the tester has noticed a kind of anormal behavior.

It is very important to give reasons in the comments section, especially when the test has failed or is considered buggy.

List of Tests

HTML 4.01 Official Test Suite

• classid and codetype attribute
• Invalid data attribute - Fallback Mechanism

HTML 4.01 QA Test Suite

• Intrinsic size
• Resizing an object element with pixels
• Resizing an object element with percentage
• Including a text with object
• Including a piece of program with object
• Including a piece of html source code with object
• "data:" scheme in data attribute

Test Report

Here we provide a short test report for some user agents and some platforms. This test report is not complete and doesn't cover all the possible cases. It may contain errors depending how testers have interpreted the test results. We will continue to collect the test results for (X)HTML object implementation.