- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:22:49 +0100
Quoting Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru>: >>> Maybe instead deprecate <img> for presentational images, leaving it only >>> for semantic images (with non-empty alt required). > >> Sounds like a good idea. We should probably also consider how >> <object> fits into this, though. Can it completely replace <img>??? It >> certainly has better support for fallback content. > > <img> has one feature that <object> lacks: to automatically derive > its dimensions from the downloaded external content. In all other > means I should say that <object> looks like a decent replacement for > <img>. <object> should do that too. See CSS 2.1 on replaced elements. <img> is just easy to author, widely implemented and well supported and therefore it is in the draft if I recall correctly. If backwards compatibility wasn't a concern I would not see so many reasons to keep it either... -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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