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Subject:	Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish
Date:	Sat, 18 Dec 1999 19:23:24 GMT
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On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:58:57 GMT, Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> wrote: > mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes: > > PS: why does HTML just have the IMG tag? Why not have the EMBED tag > > let you _embed anything_ arbitrarily? Like, another HTML document? > > Actually, I believe the IMG tag is obsolescent. Too many things validate as approximately HTML/4.0 compliant for that to be true. Besides, IMG is way too firmly entrenched. I don't think we'll ever root it out, unless we can provide a superior alternative (human nature being what it is, a _far_ superior alternative). Jasper

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		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
(...) Maybe "obsolescent" was the wrong term. I think I meant depreciated...but I'm not sure if that's right either. (...) I agree. I still use IMG because it's easy and it works on almost all browsers. However, I believe that I read that you are (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)

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		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
(...) Actually, I believe the IMG tag is obsolescent. IIRC, you are now supposed to use OBJECT for everything. I don't know that it'll let you embed another HTML document, though. You can use inline frames to embed HTML documents, but AFAIK, they're (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)

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