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I dunno about you, but I can always remember <img>, whereas anything more complex than the basic <a href=""> completely fails to stick in my head. From a simpl
by AndrewDucker 17y ago
I dunno about you, but I can always remember <img>, whereas anything more complex than the basic <a href=""> completely fails to stick in my head.
From a simple usability point of view <img> wins.
- barrkel 17y agoSyntax familiarity is proportional to usage. IOW, I'm pretty sure that if you had to use a different form to insert images, you would remember it just as easily now. Even with IMG as it is now, you have to remember to use src, rather than href as used with A.
- AndrewDucker 17y agoExcept that remembering the image source is much easier than remember the "A", which ISTR is the Anchor, but that never made sense to me either, as I'm not anchoring anything.