- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:29:58 +0200
Hallvord R M Steen wrote: > often a page needs to interact with a plugin and tell it to load > another file. Today this is of course done with JavaScript, which is > difficult because most plugins have different JS interfaces, and there > are also differences between the plugins' ActiveX based interfaces in > IE and the NPAPI plugin ones. > > Hence I thought it would be a great simplification if we could do the following: > > <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="myMedia" > data="init.swf" ></object> > > <a href="animation1.swf" target="myMedia"> load movie 1 </a> > > What do you think of this idea? Mozilla supports this for the XHTML namespace in documents with an XML MIME type. (Might only be supported in a recent build and I'm not sure if it also works with Flash, but I guess it does.) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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