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Re: embed element within object tag not validating?

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From: Mark Bryant
Date: Jul 22, 2002 11:57AM

How would you make it work within Netscape without using the <embed>?

TIA,
mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Foliot - bytown internet" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: embed element within object tag not validating?


> 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
> > <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > http://www.accessibleinter.net/
> >
> >
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