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The age old question. <object> vs <embed>. From what I gather, <object> is the XHTML-compliant way of doing things, while <embed> is for legacy support. I’m currently building a Flash application that will contain a pre-made embedding code for users to copy and paste, and I’m wondering if it’s feasible to simply dump the <embed> tag altogether.
Which browsers would be unable to load my application if I gave my users an <object>-only embed code?
Thanks 🙂
HTML4/XHTML1 only knows
<object>and<applet>for the embedding of multimedia content, though the<embed>tag like the<object>is supported by all common browsers AFAIK.With HTML5
<embed>will be included in the specification (in addition to the<object>tag), whereas the<applet>is going to be removed. In addition, there will be new tags like<audio>,<canvas>,<svg>and<video>.As far as I understand the HTML5 specs, flash contents can be included with both –
<embed>and<object>.