[whatwg] How not to fix HTML

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Joao Eiras wrote:
>
>  Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> escreveu:
> 
> > >   * Make embed legal. Give it up, people: object doesn't work and never
> > >     will.
> > HTML5 will make <emded> legal.
> 
> Object works pretty fine. embed is duplicated functionality, not as flexible
> and accessible as object.
> Browsers will continue to suport embed, but the recomendations shouldn't.

Why not?

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