Posted by code_wrong on 10/08/05 13:07

"Spartanicus" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> "code_wrong" <tac@tac.ouch.co.uk> wrote:
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>>Embedding media
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> http://www.spartanicus.utvinternet.ie/embed.htm
>


Interesting .. thanks .. .. you reference an article:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/ ..where the author jumps
through hoops to embed a flash movie in a standards compliant way i.e.by
dropping the embed tag ..
This also involved dropping the ugly stupid ugly CLSID number .. hoorah! ..
However he then had to insert an ActionScript hack into his SWF movie which
is just another hoop .. so I think I am still inclined to ignore the
standard and continue to use the Embed tag within the Object tag ....

I must say that the object tag seems overly complicated .. I would ditch it
in favour of embed .. it seems more logical .. after all what are we doing?
>> embedding stuff in a web page ..

Would it not be a better idea to tell the browser what MIME type we are
trying to embed and let the browser decide which helper application to call
.... in Firefox this would be a plugin .. in IE this might be some activeX
component .. depending on the way the browser is set up ..

Why is it left to the web designer to decide which windows component will
deal with an Object? .. seems wrong to me ..

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