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Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML, 5th Edition

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(^434) Chapter 11 Web Multimedia and Interactivity
Figure 11.4
The titleattribute
text is displayed by
the Opera browser
in the status bar and
also as a tooltip.
Embedding video on a Web page using an tag is similar to embedding audio.
You’ll use Castro’s technique (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/byebyeembed) of cod-
ing two tags and using Internet Explorer conditional comments. The code to
play the sparky.mov video with QuickTime is shown below:
<object data="sparky.mov" height="150" width="160"
type="video/quicktime"
classid="clsid:02BF25D5–8C17–4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"
title="Video of a cute Pekingese dog barking">






type="video/quicktime"
title="Video of a cute Pekingese dog barking" >



A video of a cute Pekingese dog barking.





What happens if a browser or other user agent cannot display the video? Carefully
review the code and notice that there is a descriptive phrase coded before each closing
tag. This phrase will display on the Web page if the object(in this case the
A sample page using the element to display a video can be found in the stu-
dent files at Chapter11/video.html and is shown in Figure 11.4. Depending on your
browser plug-ins, the video may not display on this page using the tag. The
sample pages were tested using the QuickTime plug-in for .mov files. This plug-in issue
can be a problem for video components. Testing with your target audience in mind as
well as giving your visitors hints on the most appropriate plug-ins will help.
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