OBJECT support in browsersThis is a work in progress. No information in this document is guaranteed to be correct yet.
This document documents the level of support of HTML 4.0's OBJECT
element in some popular browsers. OBJECT is defined in
the Objects,
Images, and Applets section of the HTML 4.0 specification.
| Type of inclusion | Support in: | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lynx 2.8 | MSIE 3.0 (Mac & Win32) |
MSIE 4.0 | NN 4.0 | ||||
| ActiveX enabled | ActiveX disabled | Unix | Win32 | Unix | Mac & Win32 | ||
| HTML documents | No | Broken | No | Quirky | Quirky | No | No |
| Images | No | Broken | No | Quirky | Quirky | No | No |
| Client-side image maps | Broken | Broken | No | Broken | Broken | No | No |
| Java applets | No | Broken | No | Broken | Broken | Yes | Yes |
| Audio clips | No | Broken | No | No | Broken | No | Quirky |
| Video clips | No | Broken | No | No | Broken | No | Quirky |
| Word documents | No | Broken | No | No | No | No | No |
| ActiveX controls | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Alternative renderings (nested OBJECTs) |
No | Broken | No | Broken | Broken | Yes | Yes |
Note that MSIE 3.0's behaviour depends on the user's settings.
| Yes | Working support. Degrades correctly. |
| No | No support. Degrades correctly. |
| Quirky | Semi-working support, can be used with some reservations. Degrades correctly if used with care. |
| Broken | Unusable. Either broken support or incorrect degrade. |
The following browsers have been tested to not recognize
OBJECT at all, and
thus
degrade it correctly: