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RE: embed element within object tag not validating?

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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Jul 20, 2002 7:34AM

Ya, order and CSS are important here: style="margin-left:-70px;" on the
"classid" object so that the IE version is *on top* of the non-clasid
version in IE, as it is rendered second.

JF

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Mason [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: July 20, 2002 4:10 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: RE: embed element within object tag not validating?
>
>
> 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
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> http://www.accessibleinter.net/
>
>
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