Posted by cwdjrxyz on 12/30/07 17:45

On Dec 30, 11:00 am, Art <m...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/07 9:23 PM, patrick j wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get a QuickTime movie to work in various browsers which is in
> > a very simple web-page.
>
> > It works very well in Safari but not in FireFox, nor in iCab or Camino or
> > IE 7.
> > [...]
> > I'm wondering what the problem might be?
>
> > Thank you for any assistance you may be able to give.
>
> Patrick,
> As you've discovered, the current versions of IE don't work with this
> method. It now requires a Javascript stub, and obviously, Javascript
> enabled on the browser. This new method will work in all browsers. No
> need for any IE-specific code.
>
> There's a good explanation of this at:
>
> http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/embedtag.shtml
>
> If you've got a number of pages with the <object> style code to convert,
> the BBEdit script will do the job nicely (it does require BBEdit which
> runs only a Mac).
>
> The description of the code conversion process is excellent at this
> site, even if you can't use the tool. There are links to both the Apple
> and Microsoft's discussions on this topic as well.
>
> You can certainly alter the user warning message (inside the <noscript>
> container) to your liking or just replace the <img> container with a
> text warning without the image.

I would not use this method. It is not necessary to use all of this
complication and script. Even today some people turn script off. Also
the code given in the referenced site has several validation errors
that need not be present if proper W3C valid code is used. It is
typical of much media code for which the authors, including those in
many media companies, do not write W3C valid html, either because they
do not know how or do not care. Of course if your only interest is
that the code will work, despite errors in it, then this method likely
is an option.

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