Re: about the OBJECT tab
Erika Madja (madja@IRO.UMontreal.CA)
Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:04:20 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:04:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erika Madja <madja@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Message-Id: <199609271704.NAA06396@fressel.iro.umontreal.ca>
To: fdrake@weyr.cnri.reston.va.us
Subject: Re: about the OBJECT tab
Cc: www-html@w3.org
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From <@weyr.cnri.reston.va.us:fdrake@weyr> Fri Sep 27 10:39:53 1996
From: "Fred L. Drake" <fdrake@cnri.reston.va.us>
Subject: Re: about the OBJECT tab
To: Erika Madja <madja@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 10:33:18 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: www-html@w3.org
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> I want to mention that this example isn't based on any
> specific browser. So my use of the OBJECT tag is rather based on
> the specification in http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-object.html as
> I expect that netscape or any other popular browser will implement
> these features. I want also to precise that all our existing code
> is C++ and we want to remain this way.
Erika,
How do you use C++ for applets? It sounds like you're not looking
for applets so much as external object interaction / invocation. Or
do I seriously misunderstand what you're doing? It doesn't sound like
you're using applets at all; what is actually using your object
declarations?
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Fred,
Excuse me. I think what I want can be viewed as a plug-ins.
To summarize, we have an application (C++) that displays multimedia documents with QoS facilities.
We want these multimedia documents to be included in HTML documents and still being handled by
the application. This later need the metadata (cf my original message ) as parameters to initialize
the multimedia being inserted.
The questions is : What will be the best way to include this parameters in the HTML documents so that
the "multimedia handler" (i.e the C++ application) can access them ?
Don't you think the OBJECT tag (and it PARAM elements) can be a solution ?
The specification refers to plug-ins as possible "object" that can be embedded in HTML documents.
Any help will be apreciated.
Thanks.
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Erika MADJA
Universite de Montreal
madja@iro.umontreal.ca