On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > The party line has been that the embed element is badly designed and > evil and needs to be replaced with the object element.
I'll look at your post in more detail at some future point but just as a heads-up, my current thinking is to include <embed> in HTML5. Basically I envisage having <embed> being for plugins, <img> being for bitmap images, and <iframe> being for nested browser views, with <object> being an element that autodetects whether to use a plugin, display a bitmap image, or act as a nested browser view based on the content. (For historical reasons, of course, the elements don't exactly fit this mold, but it's close enough IMHO.) I don't envisage keeping <applet> around unless someone can specify it in enough detail and give a convincing case for its inclusion. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
