- From: Garth Wallace <gwalla@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:43:34 PDT
- To: www-html@w3.org
The OBJECT tag seems overloaded to me. If the point of HTML is to
describe content, why eliminate two descriptive and intuitive tags and
replace them with something generic? By descriptive tags I am referring
to IMG and APPLET, whose meaning can be easily gathered from the name
(EMBED, the third tag it replaces, is almost as meaningless as OBJECT).
Looking at a webpage written using OBJECT instead of IMG and APPLET, you
would have to look at the TYPE attribute to see if whether the OBJECT
was an image, a java applet, a plug-in, etc.
Things like this really need to have separate tags, if only to make the
HTML source understandable. I know that John Doe on Geocities uses
FrontPage to design his site, but some of us still hand-code the stuff.
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Received on Thursday, 30 April 1998 02:43:37 UTC