question wrt IE6 not displaying this page properly.

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Jeff Dickens

Here's some html:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Objects 1 (images)</title>
</head>

<body>
<p><object data="jackdaw.jpg" type="image/jpg">
Picture of a Jackdaw
</object> Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. Jackdaws love
my big sphinx of quartz. Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.</p>
</body>
</html>

The file "jackdaw.jpg" is there. This file displays fine with Netscape
7 or with Mozilla Firefox. But the image is not displayed with IE6 or
IE5.5.

Is there a difference of opinion on the standards here ? Is there code
that will make the object tag display an image properly on IE ?

Thanks,

-Jeff
 
Jeff Dickens said:
Here's some html:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Objects 1 (images)</title>
</head>

<body>
<p><object data="jackdaw.jpg" type="image/jpg">
Picture of a Jackdaw
</object> Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. Jackdaws love
my big sphinx of quartz. Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.</p>
</body>
</html>

The file "jackdaw.jpg" is there. This file displays fine with Netscape
7 or with Mozilla Firefox. But the image is not displayed with IE6 or
IE5.5.

Is there a difference of opinion on the standards here ? Is there code
Click to expand...
that will make the object tag display an image properly on IE ?Adding the image tag after the object tag doesn't interfere with proper
display by either Firefox or IE 5.5

<object data="jackdaw.jpg" type="image/jpg"><img src="jackdaw.jpg">
 
Yes, and it turns out that's what I've done. But the question is why do
I have to do this? Isn't MS a member of the W3C ? There have been
major revisions of IE since this problem was reported and it's still there.

If MS wants to repudiate the W3C they should resign from it.
 
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