[uf-discuss] Need a figure markup

[Mark Pilgrim]

On 10/30/05, Ryan King <ryan at technorati.com> wrote:
> Actually, that's not true. You can use <object> for images [http://
> www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#edef-OBJECT], and, in
> fact, in XHTML 2, that's the only way to include images.

<object> is broken in IE/Win, which always treats it as an ActiveX
object and may present security warnings, show too much (including all
nested fallback objects), or show nothing at all.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2002AprJun/0865.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2002AprJun/0868.html
http://www.robinlionheart.com/stds/html4/objects.html

Also, <img> was reintroduced to XHTML 2, no doubt after a vigorous and
healthy debate in which all parties treated each other with mutual
respect.  But now it has a different content model than <img> in XHTML
1 and HTML 4, which just goes to show that mutual respect is for
chumps.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527/mod-image.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#h-13.2

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Cheers,
-Mark