Hi, I'm looking for some advice on best practice methods of embedding a QT/Flash movie in a page in a standards compliant way, so any ideas would be very gratefully received!
At the moment my page embeds a video using the standards compliant method for QT videos as described by Elizabeth Castro in her A List Apart article "Bye Bye Embed": http://www.alistapart.com/articles/byebyeembed I then use some unobstrusive javascript to add a show/hide control and to hide the video on load. This means that non-Javascript-enabled browsers will simply get the video without the show / hide controls. This is all fine until you try it in a browser without Quicktime (we may opt for Flash in the end, but the principles I guess will be the same). Then, in IE you get the rather unhelpful "Security warning" / install software message (well at least that's what you get on the IE6 install running on my virtual PC). Obviously this is not so bad in Firefox where you get the "Install missing plugins message". Using a detection script would probably by-pass these issues, but that would then not be in the spirit of progressive enhancement I'm going for. I'd be interested to know how others have approached this kind of issue. As usual I may be missing something blindingly obvious -- this is one of the areas in which my experience is a little limited! Many thanks, David -- David Little ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
