Quoting Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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 think having <embed> only for plugins doesn't scale. It also doesn't reflect implementations as they have to support it for SVG for example which some support natively. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
