- From: Brian V Bonini <b-bonini@cox.net>
- Date: 28 Jun 2003 19:09:50 -0400
- To: "J. King" <mtknight@dark-phantasy.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 17:38, J. King wrote: > It's been discussed that markup can easily be either too short or too long. > > > Since <object> is likely to be used quite extensively in XHTML 2.0, it > would seem to be preferable to shorten it to something like <obj>, which > can still be rather easily decyphered--more easily than some old HTML > elements and attributes, even. Given the nature of <object> and its new > importance, cutting the extra three character would make inserting images > into XHTML 2.0 documents less of a chore than it would otherwise have to > be. > > Though since <object> is already well established, this would make > transition a little less obvious, but things are getting seriously jumbled > and rearranged anyway--would it not be a reasonable change? I agree with that completely...
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