- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 20:26:20 -0400
- To: "jonathan chetwynd" <jay@peepo.com>
- Cc: WAI Interest Group Emailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
aloha, johathan! the problem with your code example: <OBJECT data="mysounds.wav" type="mime type">Phoebe says "mysounds"</OBJECT> is that you need to substitute the appropriate mime type for the generic placeholder "mime.type", which in this case is "audio/wav" <OBJECT data="mysounds.wav" type="audio/wav">Phoebe says "mysounds"</OBJECT> the main problem with using OBJECT, however, is the lack of browser support for and poor implementation of the OBJECT element -- check out: http://www.student.oulu.fi/%7esairwas/object-test/results/ for a color-coded table that contains listings of what browsers support OBJECT for which media, and with what results... and, although i didn't fire up HPR to read the content of the table, i can tell you from practical experience that OBJECT doesn't work very well (if at all) for sound files in the 32-bit Windows environment, although i'd love for someone to prove me wrong on that.... as for the HTML4 definition of OBJECT that can be found at: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#edef-OBJECT while the HTML4 definition of content type can be found at: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-content-type for a plain(er) english explanation of OBJECT, try the WDG materials http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/special/object.html gregory -------------------------------------------------------- He that lives on Hope, dies farting -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1763 -------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> WebMaster and Minister of Propaganda, VICUG NYC <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/index.html> --------------------------------------------------------
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