[thelist] <Object> tag - HTML 4.0

Anthony Baratta Anthony at Baratta.com
Thu Apr 11 12:14:01 CDT 2002


At 10:01 AM 4/11/2002, Mark Joslyn wrote:
>I am trying to get my pages to conform to w3c guidelines for HTML 4.01
>Transitional - which specifies that the <IMG> tag should be replaced with
>the <OBJECT> tag. When I embed my images using the <OBJECT> tag, I get
>scrollbars all around my image. Is there a way to shut these off?

Why??

The image tag is not deprecated, so why use Object? Object is for
"non-standard" elements.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#edef-OBJECT

"Most user agents have built-in mechanisms for rendering common data types
such as text, GIF images, colors, fonts, and a handful of graphic elements.
To render data types they don't support natively, user agents generally run
external applications. The OBJECT element allows authors to control whether
data should be rendered externally or by some program, specified by the
author, that renders the data within the user agent."
--
Anthony Baratta
President
Keyboard Jockeys

"Conformity is the refuge of the unimaginative."




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