It's been discussed that markup can easily be either too short or too long. 


Since <object> is likely to be used quite extensively in XHTML 2.0, it 
would seem to be preferable to shorten it to something like <obj>, which 
can still be rather easily decyphered--more easily than some old HTML 
elements and attributes, even.  Given the nature of <object> and its new 
importance, cutting the extra three character would make inserting images 
into XHTML 2.0 documents less of a chore than it would otherwise have to 
be.

Though since <object> is already well established, this would make 
transition a little less obvious, but things are getting seriously jumbled 
and rearranged anyway--would it not be a reasonable change?

-- 
J. King