In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Adam Lock"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> mtn wrote:
>
>>Hi.
>>
>>Why does the plugin use the non-standard HTML tag EMBED, and not a
>>standard HTML tag like OBJECT. It would be best, if the syntax was the
>>same as the Microsoft's.
>>
>> Martin.
>>
> Netscape invented the plugin specification when there was no such thing
> as the OBJECT tag. Instead Netscape Navigator 3.x and 4.x used the EMBED
> tag which is an HTML 3.2 standard tag but was deprecated by the OBJECT
> tag in HTML 4.0.
No it isn't. EMBED has never been in any HTML specification. In fact, it
*could not* be added because the required semantics of EMBED (arbitrary
attributes) cannot be represented in an SGML application.
Braden
