Posted by Toby A Inkster on 01/18/08 16:16

Andy Dingley wrote:
> Toby A Inkster wrote:
>
>> <embed> hasn't been a necessity since Netscape 4.x went the way of the
>> Tasmanian Tiger.
>
> I still use it. How else do you embed a video (as a file, not by
> streaming) in such a way that it uses the user's desktop's favoured
> choice of video player for assets of that content type?

<object type="video/mpeg" width=320 height=240 data="vid.mpeg">
<p>Download my <a href="vid.mpeg">video</a>.</p>
</object>


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