[e] (0) Say what the infinite attributes on <embed> are for.

Fixing http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7576 git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@3968 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Sep 22, 2009 · c25e231 · c25e231
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@@ -20302,7 +20302,8 @@ href="?audio"&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt; test instead.)&lt;/p&gt;</pre>
   <code><a href=#the-embed-element>embed</a></code> element, so long as its name is
   <a href=#xml-compatible>XML-compatible</a> and contains no characters in the range
   U+0041 .. U+005A (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER
-  Z).</p>
+  Z). These attributes are then passed as parameters to the
+  <a href=#plugin>plugin</a>.</p>
 
   <p class=note>All attributes in <a href=#html-documents>HTML documents</a> get
   lowercased automatically, so the restriction on uppercase letters
@@ -20343,6 +20344,18 @@ href="?audio"&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt; test instead.)&lt;/p&gt;</pre>
    plug-in vendor doesn't support the user's platform), then the user
    will be unable to use the resource.</p>
 
+   <p>To pass the plugin a parameter "quality" with the value "high",
+   an attribute can be specified:</p>
+
+   <pre>&lt;embed src="catgame.swf" quality="high"&gt;</pre>
+
+   <p>This would be equivalent to the following, when using an
+   <code><a href=#the-object-element>object</a></code> element instead:</p>
+
+   <pre>&lt;object data="catgame.swf"&gt;
+ &lt;param name="quality" value="high"&gt;
+&lt;/object&gt;</pre>
+
   </div>
 
 

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@@ -21764,7 +21764,8 @@ href="?audio">audio&lt;/a> test instead.)&lt;/p></pre>
   <code>embed</code> element, so long as its name is
   <span>XML-compatible</span> and contains no characters in the range
   U+0041 .. U+005A (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER
-  Z).</p>
+  Z). These attributes are then passed as parameters to the
+  <span>plugin</span>.</p>
 
   <p class="note">All attributes in <span>HTML documents</span> get
   lowercased automatically, so the restriction on uppercase letters
@@ -21807,6 +21808,18 @@ href="?audio">audio&lt;/a> test instead.)&lt;/p></pre>
    plug-in vendor doesn't support the user's platform), then the user
    will be unable to use the resource.</p>
 
+   <p>To pass the plugin a parameter "quality" with the value "high",
+   an attribute can be specified:</p>
+
+   <pre>&lt;embed src="catgame.swf" quality="high"></pre>
+
+   <p>This would be equivalent to the following, when using an
+   <code>object</code> element instead:</p>
+
+   <pre>&lt;object data="catgame.swf">
+ &lt;param name="quality" value="high">
+&lt;/object></pre>
+
   </div>