- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:28:25 +0200
Quoting Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>: > Basically I envisage having <embed> being for plugins, <img> being for > bitmap images, and <iframe> being for nested browser views, with <object> > being an element that autodetects whether to use a plugin, display a > bitmap image, or act as a nested browser view based on the content. (For > historical reasons, of course, the elements don't exactly fit this mold, > but it's close enough IMHO.) I think having <embed> only for plugins doesn't scale. It also doesn't reflect implementations as they have to support it for SVG for example which some support natively. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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