- From: Andy Coniglio <waconigl@mccallie.org>
- Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 09:02:06 -0700
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <000101bd751a$7dee2340$4b01970a@waconigl.mccallie.org>
The <OBJECT> tag is designed to allow for many different data formats. With the IMG tag, if you wanted to put in some kind of data that would go to a plugin, (not that I'm advocating plugins, I don't like them, but this is just an example.) You wouldn't want to use the <IMG> tag if this plugin is given data that tells it how to make an HTML-based form that creates, say, mailing labels. (I don't know why you would use a plugin for this, but it's only an example) As much as I like the idea of the <OBJECT> tag, I don't think that <IMG> and <APPLET> should be deprecadated. They do make it easier to understand how a page is layed out if you just look at the source. Besides, the <IMG> tag is so well known that (my guess) probably 75% of web authors (including those who use programs that keep the old tags) will continue to use <IMG>.
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