Authors:
Steven Pemberton
There is an amusing platitude that goes "A camel is a horse designed by committee." This is of course an insult to camels, which are perfectly designed for their environment. You just try putting a horse in a desert and see what happens. Something that wasn't designed by a committee as it happens is the <img> tag in HTML. This element specifies an image for inclusion in a page, and has the form <img src="pic.gif" alt="Me, en route for France"> This was badly designed in three ways: It wasn't backwards compatible: browsers that didn't know about <img> just showed…
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