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		ktizo on June 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tim Berners-Lee: If I can't give power to web apps... Hmmm. But I hadn't wanted a special tag. http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0186.ht... Maybe in the mildest sense imaginable, because he thought there was a better way of implementing it.

tedsuo on June 6, 2012 | [–]

Funny, I went back up a post and noticed it was Marc Andreessen who proposed the img tag: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...

guelo on June 6, 2012 | [–]

And really Tim was right, a more general embedding tag, including text chunks, would have made the web better over the last 20 years.

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