For those who care about "the original intent" of the web & think it means "the web was always for documents", nope.pic.twitter.com/eCGYaUUNNV
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There is a great email discussion thread, ~1993?, on whether to add the IMG tag or a format agnostic MEDIA tag. Quick fix IMG won.
Despite the web being the most popular use case for HTML, there are many others. Thankfully the spec recognizes this.
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