Posted by cwdjrxyz on 01/03/07 22:43

PH wrote:
> > c:\video\tv.wmv
> > how can I play it using a file called c:\video\play.html
> > what code do I put in the file?
>
>
> <EMBED pluginspage=http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/ src=tv.wmv
> width=300 height=200 type=application/x-mplayer2 autoplay="1" showstatusbar="1"></EMBED>


Embed is not an official W3C tag and never has been. It is a relic from
the browser war era. Use of it produces several validation errors, as
you can soon find by validating a page using embed at the W3C
validator. The object code is used rather than embed these days and has
been around many years now. I know many still use embed for media for
non-IE browsers. However I think it is very bad to suggest that someone
use it at this late date. So far, I have not found a situation where it
is necessary to use embed. Of course in the near anarchy of the web,
just about anything seems to go.

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