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According to W3Schools and Pluralsight’s HTML5 course, the <embed> tag is “new” to HTML5. But I’ve been using it since…forever, and it works in any browser i’ve tested it against. This page for example, uses the <embed> tag and it works in all browsers.
Why? Was it just a draft that got implemented ahead of time by eager browser makers?
The Mozilla docs do agree with W3Schools (for once), but you are right.
<embed>has been in use for ages but was standardized properly for HTML5.HTML 4 officially used
<object>. Contrary to several sources which state<embed>was deprecated in HTML 4, I can’t find any mention of it in the HTML 3 DTD (or in 3.2), which means it was probably never standardized officially. HTML 2 seems to be even less evolved (as one might expect). There is plenty of documentation about<applet>, but I can’t find a single mention about<embed>anywhere official.