Re: Embedding Video

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:26:55 +0100, Sebastian Gottschalk
<seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>zachd [ms] wrote:
>
>> "Sebastian Gottschalk" <seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:12azh13u9tlid.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> zachd [ms] wrote:
>>
>>>> ^-- I'll buy all that. If you can't set the object parameters in the
>>>> scripting environment (FF), then you're broken by that client's
>>>> architecture, really. =\
>>
>>> Not allowing to script plugins is a security measure which is sane and
>>> therefore a defaukt for almost any webbrowser, except IE which is broken.
>>
>> That's an interesting conjecture, but it has absolutely nothing to do with
>> what we're talking about, which is setting an object's parameters.
>
>This works quite well, but WMP plugin ignores it.
<snip />
>There are no parameters in that example. Maybe you might notice that
>anything between <object> and </object> is ignored when a plugin is found
>and that there is no such tag like "param". The URL is set by the object's
>Data property.

I think you're referring to some other document than everybody else in
the world works from. The HTML4.0 specification documents a <param />
element for <object /> elements :

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#object-init

You may be getting confused with the supported elements in XHTML so
let's review the relevant documentation here for XHTML1 and XHTML2 :

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xhtml2-20030506/mod-object.html#sec_14.2.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xhtml2-20030506/mod-object.html#s_objectmodule_issue_0

OK I hope having read that, we're clearer there *is* a <param />
element and *possibly* in future, attribute - and it is valid in all
versions of HTML4 and XHTML.

So - the question is, which markup language are *you* rendering in ?

Cheers - Neil

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