Posted by Art on 12/30/07 20:38

On 12/30/07 12:45 PM, cwdjrxyz wrote:

> 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
>[...]
> 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.
cwdjrxyz,
The above link does indeed have W3C validation errors. However, if you
merely extract the converted stubs (highlighted in color) and paste them
into your html, it will validate (assuming the remaining html/xhtml is
valid :-)). The <img> container does have an invalid parameter (border)
that needs to be removed or restyled with css for 4.01 Strict compliance.

The primary purpose of that particular page was to provide a simple
converter tool for legacy pages without using IE conditionals. When you
run the tool, it will modify only the QT-related code.

Your method is certainly a viable alternative. It would appear that it
uses the same parameter names and values as described in:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed2.html

Is that correct for both the IE and non-IE cases ?

Art

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