[whatwg] Markup for external content

[Henri Sivonen]

On Mar 18, 2007, at 19:53, Alexey Feldgendler wrote:

> * <applet>: the (old) way of activating Java. Probably must also  
> die, though I'm unsure about this one.

Why must it die? Browsers have to support it anyway, so documenting  
it and letting it pass conformance checking seems sensible.

I don't like applets, either. In fact I've never seen a Java applet  
that wasn't either useless, better implemented in JavaScript, better  
implemented in Flash or better in a window of its own rather than in  
a replaced element rectangle. Still, pretending that <applet> doesn't  
exist won't make applets disappear. :-(

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