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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think <embed> was used because it embedded a flash player, back when flash existed on the web. Then browsers decided to g
by capableweb 4y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think <embed> was used because it embedded a flash player, back when flash existed on the web. Then browsers decided to get rid of flash, and something had to replace it. You can't <embed> HTML pages, so wasn't really up to YouTube if to break it or not.
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- cxr 4y ago> Someone correct me if I'm wrong[...] You can't <embed> HTML pages You are wrong.
- capableweb 4y ago16 people say I'm right, one person say I'm wrong. I'm not doubting you, but I'd love it if you could show how I'm wrong? Maybe I misremember how to use <embed>.
- forgotpwd16 4y agoHere's an example by infamous w3schools: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_embed_html https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_e...
- cxr 4y ago> 16 people say I'm right Where? To be clear, it doesn't matter—being wrong is wrong. Those other people, even if they exist, are wrong, too. (I can half-understand not checking before you posted the original comment. But why wouldn't you, in response to someone letting you know that you are wrong—which was itself in response to you asking, by the way—take half as much time to just check as the amount of time it took to type out such an bewilderingly obnoxious followup?)
- chrismorgan 4y agoJust try it. Here’s a sample URL: data:text/html,<embed src=https://example.com> (Mind you, this shows that it works now, without commenting on whether it worked then, which I know not.)