Re: LAYER and EMBED

I was thinking here of legacy solutions. It's EMBED or nothing. I think.

Charles

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Al Gilman wrote:

> to follow up on what Charles McCathie Nevile said:
> 
> > EMBED is trickier. What other way is there to include a multimedia object 
> > such as a video in a page (rather than linking to it as a document)? 
> > OBJECT and IFRAME could, again, be used,  but they are not implemented 
> > where EMBED is.
> 
> You can compose a SMIL presentation with the web page on layer 1
> and the video on layer 2, where it hides a static GIF placeholder
> for those lacking the video player.  I think you can, anyway.
> 
> Al
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