Changes in HTML 5 - <embed/> Tag

What's new in HTML 5

Differences between HTML 5 and earlier versions of HTML

The <embed/> tag did not exist in older versions of HTML.

In ployglot HTML documents the <embed/> tag is coded as a self-closing tag the same as in the 2000-2010 Recommendations from the W3C HTML Working Group. Those specifications changed the ending delimiter to /> from > in older recommendations. They also defined the HTML namespace for the embed element type name and the names of other HTML element types.