- From: Garth Wallace <gwalla@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 15:43:16 PDT
- To: www-html@w3.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)
Right. That _wouldn't_ go in an IMG tag because it isn't an image.
That's what OBJECT should be used for. It just shouldn't be used for
everything.
>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>.
My point exactly.
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