[whatwg] Resurrection of HTML+'s <image> (was: <video> element feedback)

[Simon Pieters]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:42:24 +0100, Nicholas Shanks  
<contact at nickshanks.com> wrote:

> I asked for the resurrection of HTML+'s <image>fallback</image>
> element last month.
> The reasons I cited were exactly the same as the reasons being given
> now in favour of the <video> element, however I was told
> (paraphrasing) "Why bother, you can just use <object>" and "That
> would break existing implementations" (though no such implementations
> were cited).

Existing implementations include at least:

  * Internet Explorer
  * Firefox
  * Opera
  * Safari

The <image> start tag is parsed as if it were <img>, so you would get both  
the image and the fallback with HTML+ markup. Existing content rely on  
this behaviour, which is why it was added to the Parsing spec (see "A  
start tag whose tag name is "image"", and see comment in source).

-- 
Simon Pieters