And now for something that is both new and on a completely different topic from the other new material this week. Today’s article is about the object tag which is supposed to be the way that you embed other content such as video, sound, images, and other HTML files etc into your web page instead of using proprietary tags such as embed, deprecated tags such as iframe, and even tags which still exist in the current version of (X)HTML but which are proposed to be removed from XHTML 2.0 such as the img tag.

Unfortunately it isn’t as simple as it seems since there are a number of issues that one browser (I’m sure you guessed it’s Internet Explorer) has where it doesn’t support the object tag properly (which is somewhat strange considering that Microsoft proposed that tag in the first place.

The Object Tag

Tags: embed, html, iframe, img, internet explorer, microsoft, object