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Re: embed element within object tag not validating?

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From: Joel Ward
Date: Jul 19, 2002 11:19AM

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/o/object.htm

According to this reference, OBJECT is only available in NN6 and above.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Bryant" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: embed element within object tag not validating?


> 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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