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Including parameters

If there is no registered plugin for the MIME type, the browser may (depending on which one you are

using) offer to install the correct plugin for the file. Many browsers also look for the

pluginspage

attribute, which is an unofficial attribute of

(it doesn’t exist in the HTML specification).

This attribute specifies where to find the plugin for the embedded object if it isn’t already on the user ’s

machine. Example:

pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Vers

ion=ShockwaveFlash”

width=”100” height=”100”></object>

Including parameters

Sometimes an object requires additional parameters before it can start running. To specify parameters for

an embedded object, use the

element with its

name

and

value

attributes:

width=”100” height=”100”>

</object>

Each object can have any number of parameters. Including parameters that aren’t necessary doesn’t

have any negative effect.

Netscape 4.x

The old Netscape 4.x browsers don’t support the

element, so you use the old Netscape pro-

prietary

element. The

element accepts most of the same attributes as

(indeed,

was modeled after

), except the

src

attribute is used instead of

data

width=”100” height=”100”>

</embed>

As you can see, this approach is very similar to using

. The problem is that newer browsers

don’t support this element (it has officially been deprecated). So if you plan on supporting Netscape 4.x,

the preferred solution is to use

with an

element inside of it, such as in the following:

width=”100” height=”100”>

width=”100” height=”100”>

</embed>

</object>

Using this approach, the newer browsers ignore the

element and use

to embed

the file; Netscape 4.x ignores

and uses

to embed the file.

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