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By: Spider Trax » How accessible are embedded movies?

Spider Trax » How accessible are embedded movies? — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:48:25 +0000

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By: Brent

Brent — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:48:01 +0000

I am having the same problem as well. I’ve got a little file that plays on a clients website. It works, sure…but not having it validate bothers the living whatever out of me. My client’s last developer used the bgsound tag; hitting roughly 47% of the world’s internet users. I mentioned that we could do the flash get up and hit roughly 97% of the world’s internet users. He agreed. But how can a developer go to sleep and not have the code validate? I’ll be checking back often to see if there’s a reply to this with a satisfactory answer.

-Brent

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:30:00 +0000

I am not an expert at ’embedding’ stuff, so thanks for correcting me.

However it should also be noted that is not part of the XHTML specification and will prevent your page from validating.

So ideally I would like to remove that portion of it altogether!

By: zcorpan

zcorpan — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:12:20 +0000

IE has support for EMBED, so what’s the benefit of using the OBJECT? Your OBJECT abuses the classid and codebase attributes to trigger the ActiveX in IE, and the type attribute doesn’t represent the MIME type of the file (which probably is video/mpeg). There’s also no data attribute pointing to the file. Just because it validates doesn’t mean it is compliant.

I think it should look something like this:

…or:

In text/html, EMBED is always an empty element and has no end tag. At least in IE, Firefox and Opera.

By: Spider Trax » How accessible are embeded movies?

Spider Trax » How accessible are embeded movies? — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:39:27 +0000

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