Hipster HTML element of the day: <image>. Never really existed, but people use it, so browsers support it. http://jakearchibald.com/2013/having-fun-with-image/ …
@wilto Yeah, I’m not saying this is why browsers implemented it. I honestly have no idea why. +@jaffathecake
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@mathias@wilto@jaffathecake Blame Mosaic for originally implementing a stupid abbreviation to save two characters. -
@tabatkins@mathias@wilto Thankfully SVG didn't make the same mistake. Oh wait, <g> for groups.
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@mathias@wilto@jaffathecake Yes. It was a persistent typo way back in the day, so browsers just aliased it. Now we're stuck with it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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