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Re: embed element within object tag not validating?

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From: Mark Bryant
Date: Jul 19, 2002 11:13AM

When I removed the <embed>...</embed>, it still worked fine in IE, but not
in Netscape.

-mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Spruill" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: embed element within object tag not validating?


> Mark,
>
> <embed> is deprecated - just use the object tag (remove the embed line
> from your page code). That works fine for me in NS4x-6+ and IE5+ on PC -
> haven't tried it on the mac yet, but you should be fine I believe,
> though you might also want to add a title attribute value.
>
> HK
>
>
> Kevin Spruill
> National Library of Medicine
> OCCS
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> (301) 402-9708
> (301) 402-0367 (fax)
> www.nlm.nih.gov
>
> >>> <EMAIL REMOVED> 07/18/02 10:21AM >>>
> When validating http://www.gcflearnfree.org with an HTML validator, we
> find
> out that <embed> is not part of html 4.01 and therefore does not
> validate.
> We do not use flash often and it is only used as supplemental material
> to
> information presented. Any ideas on how to make it validate?
>
> TIA,
> mark
>
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