'OBJECT' player code does not validate. (attribute that does not exist)

[jasonc]

What is the correct method to code this so there are no errors ?

 

<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="300" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="Video.wmv">
<PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="false">
<PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
<PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="ture">
<EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="Video.wmv" NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="300" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="1" ShowDisplay="1" autostart="0"> </EMBED>
</OBJECT>

[mjc302]

Theres a couple reasons why this doesnt validate.

 

1. If the Doctype is XHTML, the element and attributes must be lowercase. Also all tags need to be closed, meaning that the param tags need to be self-closed. This is standard xml.

2. Do a search on using the embed tag. The embed tag will never validate however there are many workarounds, some fairly straightforward, some not so much.

 

Try this, it should validate XHTML 1.0 Strict:

 

<object classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" 
  id="MediaPlayer" standby="Loading Windows Media Player components..." width="300" height="300">
  <PARAM NAME="url" value="Video.wmv" />
  <param name="src" value="Video.wmv" />
  <param name="showcontrols" value="true" />
  <param name="autostart" value="false" />
  <!--[if !IE]>-->
  <object type="video/x-ms-wmv" data="Video.wmv" width="300" height="300">
    <param name="src" value="Video.wmv" />
    <param name="autostart" value="false" />
    <param name="controller" value="true" />
  </object>
  <!--<![endif]-->
</object>

[haku]

Personally, I use SWFObject to embed flash. It's cross-browser compatible and validates.

[jasonc]

Thank you for this answer, did the trick in solving the validation problems.

 

cheers

 

 

Theres a couple reasons why this doesnt validate.

 

1. If the Doctype is XHTML, the element and attributes must be lowercase. Also all tags need to be closed, meaning that the param tags need to be self-closed. This is standard xml.

2. Do a search on using the embed tag. The embed tag will never validate however there are many workarounds, some fairly straightforward, some not so much.

 

Try this, it should validate XHTML 1.0 Strict:

 

<object classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" 
  id="MediaPlayer" standby="Loading Windows Media Player components..." width="300" height="300">
  <PARAM NAME="url" value="Video.wmv" />
  <param name="src" value="Video.wmv" />
  <param name="showcontrols" value="true" />
  <param name="autostart" value="false" />
  <!--[if !IE]>-->
  <object type="video/x-ms-wmv" data="Video.wmv" width="300" height="300">
    <param name="src" value="Video.wmv" />
    <param name="autostart" value="false" />
    <param name="controller" value="true" />
  </object>
  <!--<![endif]-->
</object>