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RE: embed element within object tag not validating?

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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Jul 19, 2002 3:06PM


based on my current testing, <OBJECT> for the additon of Flash does not work
in Mozilla 1.0 (???!!!) nor Opera 6.03 (??!!), both require the deprecated
<embed> tag.

What's a developer to do?

JF

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Ward [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: July 19, 2002 2:11 PM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: Re: embed element within object tag not validating?
>
>
> 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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