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RE: embed element within object tag not validating?

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From: Bill Mason
Date: Jul 20, 2002 1:16AM

At 12:00 AM 07/20/2002, John Foliot wrote:
>Thanks Bill... this lead me to this:
>
><object data="images/flash/intro.swf" width="70" height="400">
> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
>codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.ca
>b#version=5,0,0,0" width="70" height="400" style="margin-left:-70px;">
><param name=movie value="images/flash/intro.swf"> <param name="quality"
>value="high">
> </object>
></object>
>
>Which validates to HTML 4.01 (strict) and is working in Moz 1.0, Opera 6.03,
>and IE 6.02

I tried that on my IE6.02, but it loaded both objects the first time, and
only the "classid" one on a refresh (though it still left space in the page
layout for the other object). Worked fine in Mozilla and Opera.

Bill Mason
Accessible Internet
<EMAIL REMOVED>
http://www.accessibleinter.net/



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