Re: LAYER and EMBED

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

Received on Thursday, 3 December 1998 15:47:20 UTC