[capableweb]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think <embed> was used because it embedded a flash player, back when flash existed on the web. Then browsers decided to get rid of flash, and something had to replace it. You can't <embed> HTML pages, so wasn't really up to YouTube if to break it or not.

[cxr]

> Someone correct me if I'm wrong[...] You can't <embed> HTML pages

You are wrong.

[capableweb]

16 people say I'm right, one person say I'm wrong. I'm not doubting you, but I'd love it if you could show how I'm wrong? Maybe I misremember how to use <embed>.

[chrismorgan]

Just try it. Here’s a sample URL:

  data:text/html,<embed src=https://example.com>

(Mind you, this shows that it works now, without commenting on whether it worked then, which I know not.)

[cxr]

> 16 people say I'm right

Where? To be clear, it doesn't matter—being wrong is wrong. Those other people, even if they exist, are wrong, too.

(I can half-understand not checking before you posted the original comment. But why wouldn't you, in response to someone letting you know that you are wrong—which was itself in response to you asking, by the way—take half as much time to just check as the amount of time it took to type out such an bewilderingly obnoxious followup?)

[forgotpwd16]

Here's an example by infamous w3schools:

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_e...