Posted by patrick j on 12/30/07 21:17

On Dec 30, 2007 Art wrote:

> 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.

Hi Art

Thank you very much for this advice. I am a BBEdit user it is really a
fabulous text editor :)

I'm going to check this out. In fact my main priority is to get the page to
work with Firefox. I like the conditional comment procedure for IE as
mentioned in a neighbouring post.



--
Patrick - Brighton, UK
If you wish email me from my web-site: <http://www.patrickjames.me.uk>

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