IE3.0 Support for the EMBED Tag

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 will support the <EMBED> tag syntax for embedding objects on an HTML page. This support is meant for compatibility with other browsers. The accepted WWW Consortium HTML standard recommends using the <OBJECT> tag for embedding objects in HTML, and Internet Explorer 3.0 supports this syntax as well.

Using <OBJECT> but degrading gracefully to work in other browsers:

Internet Explorer 3.0 supports the <OBJECT> tag. All browsers that comply with the accepted W3C HTML 3.2 standard will understand this HTML syntax. However, the <OBJECT> syntax degrades gracefully in other browsers as well, because OBJECT-aware browsers will ignore additional tags placed between <OBJECT> and </OBJECT>. So to use the <OBJECT> tag but allow content to be viewable by other browsers (perhaps using the <EMBED> tag), one should author the following HTML:

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:unique object identifier" DATA="MyMovie.AVI" WITDTH=100 HEIGHT=250>
     <PARAM NAME=AUTOSTART VALUE=TRUE>
     <PARAM NAME=PLAYBACK VALUE=FALSE>
     <EMBED SRC="MyMovie.AVI" WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=250 AUTOSTART=TRUE PLAYBACK=FALSE>
</OBJECT>

In browsers that support the <OBJECT> tag, the <EMBED> tag will be ignored. Browsers that do not support <OBJECT> will ignore the <OBJECT>, <PARAM> and </OBJECT> tags. So in both cases an object will be displayed

Support for <EMBED> - compatibility with existing web pages

Internet Explorer 3.0 supports the <EMBED> syntax for backwards compatibility with existing HTML pages that were authored before the <OBJECT> tag was added to the HTML standard. The following is the <EMBED> syntax accepted by IE3.0:

<EMBED SRC="object data"
       WIDTH="width of object"
       HEIGHT="height of object"
       PALETTE="foreground | background"
       NAME="programmatic name"
       PLUGINSPAGE="page with installation instructions"e;
       OPTIONAL PARAM="value"
       OPTIONAL PARAM="value" ...>

EXAMPLE: <EMBED SRC="MyMovie.AVI" WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=250 AUTOSTART=TRUE PLAYBACK=FALSE>