Posted by Art on 12/30/07 22:27

On 12/30/07 4:17 PM, patrick j wrote:

> 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,
cwdjrxyz's method certainly has merit if you're coding the page from
scratch as it is easier to attach any parameters where you wish to
override the default states. As I mentioned in a follow-up posting, the
BBEdit tool was intended for bulk conversion of legacy pages that
utilized the <embed> tag method.

Looking back at one of your follow-ups, if the final intent is to place
this on a DVD, have you considered importing it into a tool such as
iMovie/iDVD or Toast and creating a stand-alone DVD media ? You wouldn't
be faced with the streaming issues, or browser "idiosyncrasies" with
this method. Your 4.3GB movie would fit on a SL DVD media.

Art

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