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Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Porad)
Wed Aug 28 12:11:56 1996
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:09:24 -0500
To: www-talk@w3.org
From: porad@smallworld.com (Scott Porad)
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Someone asked:
>>> Does any of you know if I can use the ALT= keyword in an <EMBED SRC=> tag
>>> as I do in <IMG SRC=>, or can not?
Then another replied:
>><EMBED> is obsolete. The W3C has standardized on <OBJECT> for that
And a third said:
>Except of course that Netscape supports EMBED and does not yet support OBJECT.
>Minor point - except that the vast majority of browsers in use as NS.
And I would like to comment/ask:
MSIE supports <EMBED>, although they say in their spec:
OBJECT is the preferred element for inserting objects, but EMBED
is included for backward compatibility with earlier HTML documents.
Which brings up an interesting point from a practical point of view: which
to use <EMBED> or <OBJECT>? Obviously, <OBJECT> is the correct thing, but
has anyone figured out a short-term solution (until Netscape gets with the
program) short of making pages and then having to rebuild them?
Scott
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