- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:01:47 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Joao Eiras wrote: > > > > > > Browsers will continue to suport embed, but the recomendations > > > shouldn't. > > > > Why not? > > Embed doesn't provide a fallback mechanism, and mixing parameters to the > plugin, and attributes can be error prone, depending on the plugin, > while object makes use of param. Sure but, everyone uses <embed>, and <object> doesn't (in practice) work that well really. Also, <object> is overloaded to do things like IFrames, and images, and plugins... having <embed> just for plugins would make it like <img> and <iframe>, the simple <object> for plugins. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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