Re: EMBED and OBJECT tags

Yes this is the same for Flash movies as well.

Both the Object tag (IE) and Embed (NN) are required if you
want the movie to be accessible on both platforms.

So while it may not be mentioned both are required.

Look at any site that incorporates a Flash animation you will always
see both tags.

IE will ignore the Embed tag and NN will ignore the Object tag. BUT
the Embed tag MUST be placed INSIDE the Object tags.

I'm not sure about browser versions tho... NN3 only using the Embed
and NN4 using the Object... I always thought that all versions of NN used
the Embed tag.

At 10:07 AM 10/24/99 -0700, Carol Geary wrote:
>This is an old message from last February. The problem is that I use the
>EMBED tag for Flash and QT movies, but it is not in the HTML4 spec. I
>made two test pages for the EMBED and OBJECT tags using a QTVR movie
>(QT3). I'm wondering if there is any new info about these tags. As John
>says in the message included below, even if there is just an OBJECT tag
>in the code, Netscape on the Mac uses EMBED.
>
>This URL has an EMBED tag nesting within the OBJECT tag:
>http://caroling.holyoak.com/Access/test/objectEmbed.html
>
>This URL loads a QTVR using just the OBJECT tag:
>http://caroling.holyoak.com/Access/test/objectNoEmbed.html
>John Dowdell wrote:
> >
> > When I visit in NS4.5/Win32 and do a "View Info", it tells me that the
> > video is shown as embedded content. I double-checked in IE401/Win32 too.
> > (I'd have to juggle RAM to check in my Mac browsers at the moment.)
> >
> > >From viewing the page, I'm not sure what leads you to suspect that the
> > EMBED may be superfluous in some browsers...?
>
>I based my assumption on the fact that NN3 used the text
>Embed, which I placed after the Embed tag, whereas the NN4
>and MSIE4 used the text Object, which I placed after the
>Object tag. I assumed that if OBJECT worked, the browser
>would skip the Embed.
>    Now I made a page just using OBJECT. Here's the code:
><OBJECT
>Data="../../Trips/Imagine/geometry/evolving/brainCell/objectQTVR/haptiToEIE 
>1obj.mov"
>HEIGHT=125 WIDTH=100  BGCOLOR="#000000">
>    <PARAM NAME="CONTROLLER" VALUE="true">
>    <PARAM NAME="SCALE" VALUE="aspect">
></OBJECT>Object tag only
>
>
> >
> > (Sidenote: The ActiveX Control's OBJECT tag includes a codebase parameter
> > for auto-installation, but I don't believe it will do anything with the
> > PLUGINSPAGE parameter, which is usually used with plugins instead.)
> >
> > fwiw, Apple's documentation on QuickTime use for webmasters can be found at
> > http://www.apple.com/quicktime/authors/webmas.html
> >
>I have the webmas.html link and it does not mention the
>OBJECT tag. That's why I wrote to the quicktime-vr list but
>have not gotten any comments yet. OK, I took out the
>plugispage parameter, thanks.
>--
>Carol Geary, http://home.earthlink.net/~caroling/index.html

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