|  | Posted by Andy Dingley on 01/18/08 14:03 
On 18 Jan, 12:13, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>wrote:
 
 > <embed> hasn't been a necessity since Netscape 4.x went the way of the
 > Tasmanian Tiger.
 
 I still use it. How else do you embed a video (as a file, not by
 streaming) in such a way that it uses the user's desktop's favoured
 choice of video player for assets of that content type?
 
 AFAIK, you can't do this with <object>, as <object> requires the page
 author to imply one or more player applications. <a> has similar
 behaviour to <embed>, but obviously doesn't embed within the page.
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