RE: OBJECT out of hand

The <OBJECT> tag is designed to allow for many different data formats.  With
the IMG tag, if you wanted to put in some kind of data that would go to a
plugin, (not that I'm advocating plugins, I don't like them, but this is
just an example.)  You wouldn't want to use the <IMG> tag if this plugin is
given data that tells it how to make an HTML-based form that creates, say,
mailing labels. (I don't know why you would use a plugin for this, but it's
only an example)

As much as I like the idea of the <OBJECT> tag, I don't think that <IMG> and
<APPLET> should be deprecadated.  They do make it easier to understand how a
page is layed out if you just look at the source.  Besides, the <IMG> tag is
so well known that (my guess) probably 75% of web authors (including those
who use programs that keep the old tags) will continue to use <IMG>.