September 2010
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[Historical] Origins of the tag
One more interesting article i came across while i was reading through Dive Into HTML5
Why do we have an <img> element?
On February 25, 1993, Marc Andreessen wrote:
I’d like to propose a new, optional HTML tag:
IMG
Required argument is SRC="url".
This names a bitmap or pixmap file for the browser to attempt to pull over the network and interpret as an image, to be embedded in the...
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Implementations and specifications
I came across this interesting piece of discussion while reading through Dive Into HTML5.
Implementations and specifications have to do a delicate dance together. You don’t want implementations to happen before the specification is finished, because people start depending on the details of implementations and that constrains the specification. However, you also don’t want the specification to be...