Andreas Haugstrup wrote:
> It's still not valid. Hiding the tags from the validator doesn't make the  
> code valid. <object> might be made valid xhtml, but <embed> can never be  
> valid xhtml.

That's because the HTML 4.0 spec itself did not validate to existing 
browsers -- EMBED was used before Microsoft introduced OBJECT, and the 
W3C later followed a form of OBJECT but without advice on bringing the 
world's existing browsers on board.

(Me, I don't care about whatever tag the browsers use for extended 
content, just so long as it calls up the Netscape Plugin correctly, 
without loss of other functionality. Drew's "Satay" article a few years 
back noted how some of the current browsers did with only OBJECT, but he 
only tested for visibility, not for adverse effects on streaming, 
printing, data-transfer or other issues in the varied browsers when 
omitting the EMBED tag they document.)

jd



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