Active Content

On Apr 16, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Gene Endrody wrote:
> What are the disadvatages of leaving out the
<object> tags? I don't 
> actually know why they are there in the first place. I
thought it was 
> some netscape thing, but netscape seems fine with just
the embed. 
> (Feels like a beginner question.....I'm such a noob.)
>
> Seems like the object tags mess up the
activateActiveX_onload.js.

Apple's HTML Scripting Guide for QuickTime says:
> There is one notable exception to this standard
behavior. Internet 
> Explorer for Windows no longer
> supports the PLUGINSPAGE attribute for the
<EMBED> tag. If the user 
> does not have QuickTime installed,
> Internet Explorer for Windows will not offer to get it
unless the 
> <OBJECT> tag is used. If QuickTime
> is installed, however, the <EMBED> tag works
consistently in all 
> common browsers.

Extrapolating - if you know Shockwave is installed there is
no need for 
the OBJECT  tag.

For Flash, the activateActiveX_onload.js solution failed for
me as 
well. I modified the QuickTime example at 

http://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedprep.html and
it works. I 
haven't done the modification for Shockwave. Try
substituting the 
Shockwave classid, codebase and pluginspage values in the
QuickTime 
solution. I used the general solution two.

Henry Martin

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Place this tag at the top of pages containing active content
/ objects:

*<!--[if IE]><script defer="defer"
src="ie_fix.js"
type="text/javascript"></script><![e
ndif]-->***

And in a separate file named ie_fix.js (location relative to
pages that are
changed with the script tag above.)

*var objects = document.getElementsByTagName( 'object' );
*

*for ( var i = 0; i < objects.length; i++ ){*

*objects[ i ].outerHTML = objects[ i ].outerHTML;*

*}*
**Watch line wraps***

Charles P.
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