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Bug 15166 - We now have built-in tags for images, audio, and video: <img src="image.jpg" /> <audio src="audio.mp3" /> <video src="video.mp4" /> This allows us to embed images, audio, and video in webpages without the need of proprietary plugins, such as Adobe Flash.
Summary: We now have built-in tags for images, audio, and video: <img src="image.jpg" ...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-12-13 15:19 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2016-08-19 03:35 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-12-13 15:19:18 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
We now have built-in tags for images, audio, and video:

<img src="image.jpg" />
<audio src="audio.mp3" />
<video src="video.mp4" />

This allows us to embed images, audio, and video in webpages without the need
of proprietary plugins, such as Adobe Flash. 

However, there is also the need to embed text documents in webpages as well.
For instance, a new document tag could be defined for this purpose:

<document src="document.pdf" />

This would allow us to embed any document, such as eBooks, user manuals,
research papers, etc., without needing to use plugins such as Adobe Acrobat.
Just as there are many formats for images, audio, and video, there are also
many formats for electronic documents, such as ePub, XPS, PS, TeX, but PDF
(which became open source in 2008) is by far the most popular one. We should
make the document tag an HTML5 standard so that PDF documents can be natively
supported by browsers.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-12-14 00:49:03 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: This is already supported. The element is (for historical reasons) called <iframe>.
Comment 2 Leonard Rosenthol 2011-12-14 07:50:38 UTC 
For single page PDFs, you can also use <img> as described in the HTML spec.