AmigaActive (2003/2143)

From:Neil Bothwick
Date:30 May 2000 at 22:11:28
Subject:Re: serious problem -need answer quick (this is OT)

Bart King said,

> Robbin Van Ooy <amiga@multiweb.nl> wrote:

>> >EMBED is a bit crap, OBJECT is better
>>
>> I have never heard of this tag, is it supported in all browsers?

> Nope. <object> is very Windows -

Nope. OBJECT is pure HTML 4.0.

> it can use ActiveX, and also classes
> defined in the registry. I'm not sure if Linux supports it some how, but
> Amiga browsers certainly don't (and probably can't, since all objects are
> compiled for x86).

At least one Amiga browser handles OBJECT. It can't handle all file
types of course, but we were talking about audio files, MP3 or WAVE,
which aren't a problem.

> HTML does not support sounds. All sound is handled by external
> applications (the bgsound tag is not standard).

But the OBJECT tag is.

>> the way, what fileformat and what tag is the most compatible of all the
>> options mentioned?

> None :)

Wrong, WAVE is the most supported filetype, almost everything handles
it.

> Yes, this has nothing to do with Amiga's so probably best stop this thread.

Why does it have nothing to do with Amigas? Amiga browsers can handle
two of the three most common audio filetypes.

Neil



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