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tlrobinson on Sept 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Proposed new HTML tag: IMG (1993)

"Otherwise, next week someone is going to suggest 'lets put in a new tag <AUD SRC="file://foobar.com/foo/bar/blargh.snd">' for audio. There shouldn't be much cost in going with something that generalizes."

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0198.ht...

Well, maybe not next week, but certainly 15+ years later.

icebraining on Sept 26, 2012 [–]

Both <embed> and <bgsound> (the latter not standard, but certainly "proposed") have been around for a long time.

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