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molmalo on Sept 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Proposed new HTML tag: IMG (1993)

Jim Davis: 1) why have SRC instead of HREF?

Marc Andreessen: Because I wanted to avoid overloading HREF -- doesn't really make sense in this context, I don't think.

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0196.ht...

So... that's the reason!

pestaa on Sept 26, 2012 [–]

Well, you want to embed the image from a source identified by URL, not refer to it. In fact, I wonder why we need to use href when invoking stylesheets.

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