tomman: "toho-vote.info/vote even my beloved Touhou Project has fell prey of the Chroimeisms: dynamic imports are now needed for polls WHY!?" I knew you're a Touhou fan after your comment about pixiv :)

Yeah it's annoying having to use Firefox ESR just to participate in that poll (and my favorite Mima is not even top 10, smh)

Hmmm... just found some odd behavior of the long defunct (but still useful!) Flashblock addon

Consider this page: applefritter.com/node/539

the images are wrapped inside <object> tags (WHY?!)

if you have Flashblock installed, the images will load but not render

this is why because Flashblock attaches a -moz-binding: url("chrome://flashblock/content/flashblock.xml#brokenobject") !important style to each <object> tag

if you disable that rule and reload the page, the images will render

I guess it's time to hack Flashblock (and maybe rename it to "AnnoyingHTML5VideoBlock" since it's all what it's good for these post-NPAPI days) and tell it to not mess with <object> tags anymore

as for that site using <object> tags to wrap ordinary HTML inside... WHY?!?!?!?!?!

It's not even a Chromeism™... or is it?

is the <object> tag still worth something these days?

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/object well, apparently the standards have allowed for that behavior since forever

You're not meant to use it anymore on new developments, tho...

no, wait, you're meant to use <object> to embed external media (and it will still work for some MIME types), not as a bizarro <div> equivalent!

IIRC object could let you have multiline text alternative content for images, which alt didn't (or maybe I just didn't try hard enough?)

tomman: but in that case, it really is just wrapped inside <object></object>!?

njsg: yeah, it's basically <object><p><img src="blah"></p></object>

Could it be drupal?

"<meta name="Generator" content="Drupal 7 (drupal.org)" />"

have your cookie!

no, I wasn't trying to guess the CMS, just wondering if it could be something drupal was doing with images

And that's of the class of websites that rarely bothers using the latest shiny, since their audience are... well, dinosaurs (maybe some still even using old PPC Macs)

but yeah, that's extremely weird as <object> was not meant as a general purpose container

tomman: so far it looks like older articles/pages have that, and newer ones have divs

ooh~

div,div,div, some with "media" in the class name applefritter.com/content/using-eworld

could even be drupal, or at least this install, handles images and, say, video the same way, and had an <object> for that in the past; but could also be a coincidence