Re: Help with nested objects

[David Stone]

Dang, posted one group off!
Redirecting...

In article <no.email-D4B329...@news.eternal-september.org>,
David Stone <no.e...@domain.invalid> wrote:

> I'm experimenting with adding fall-back objects for web pages
> that might be viewed on an iPad (so no Flash!), but apparently
> it isn't working so far...
>
> Here's the page:
> <http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/coursenotes/analsci/chrom/index.html>
>
> In short, there should be two Flash player objects floated to the
> right, one at each italicised subhead. The upper one uses a nested
> QT movie version of the same animation as a fallback, but apparently
> this doesn't show.
>
> Either my markup is wrong, or perhaps the server is sending the
> wrong http Content-Type for the movie, which would over-ride the
> object type parameter? (This wouldn't altogether surprise me, but
> I have no access to these settings.)
>
> Also, are param names case-sensitive? Apple has both all-caps and
> CamelCase versions in their documentation...
>
> Here's the actual markup from the page:
>
> <!-- Float a flash object to the right for the simple animation -->
> <object class="rightside" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> data="tlcplate.swf" height="250" width="250">
> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
> <param name="loop" value="false">
> <param name="movie" value="tlcplate.swf">
> <!-- Nest a Quicktime movie object for 'fall through' -->
> <!-- Add 16 pixels to the height for controller -->
> <object class="rightside" type="video/quicktime"
> data="tlcplate.mov" height="266" width="250">
> <param name="AutoPlay" value="false">
> <param name="Controller" value="true">
> <param name="PlayEveryFrame" value="true">
> </object>
> Some text snipped
> <!-- Final fall-through is an explanatory text message -->
> </object>