- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:01:54 -0700
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 8:16 AM, zhao Matt <mattzhaoweb at gmail.com> wrote: > According to HTML5 spec, the <embed> tag can play a swf file, however,? the > <object> tag can also play a swf file (though <object is defined in HTML4>). > I don't understand why need the <embed> tag , because the <object> tag can > support(or? embed) many objects such as images, audio, videos, Java applets, > ActiveX, PDF, and Flash. The <embed> element isn't really meant for use by authors going forward. However, it has become a part of the web platform in practice, and a lot of pages use it. Thus, HTML5 defines how to handle the element. ~TJ
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