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HTML5 Solutions: Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers

HTML5 brings the biggest changes to HTML in years. Web designers now have new techniques, from displaying video and audio natively in HTML, to creating realtime graphics on a web page without a plugin.

This book provides a collection of solutions to all of the most common HTML5 problems. Every solution contains sample code that is production-ready and can be applied to any project.

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Playing QuickTime Movies on Your Webpage

By Stephen Bucaro

QuickTime is a common video format on the Internet. The QuickTime video format was developed by the Apple Computer company. QuickTime videos have the file extension .mov. Code to play a QuickTime movie can easily be added to a webpage.

Recent versions of Internet Explorer do not support the embed tag that was previously used to install Netscape-style plug-ins to play QuickTime movies. You are now required to use the W3C standard "object" element tag to load the new QuickTime ActiveX control from Apple.

The <object> Element

The code shown below uses the "object" element tag to automatically install the QuickTime ActiveX control, if it's not already installed on the users computer, and to automatically load and play a QuickTime movie.

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" width="320" height="256"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="SRC" value="chicken.mov" />
<param name="autoStart" value="true" />
<param name="loop" value="flase" />
<param name="showControls" value="true" />
</object>

The object classid attribute uniquely identifies the ActiveX control to use. It must be set to "clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" to install the QuickTime Movie Player. If the user's computer does not already have the ActiveX control installed, Internet Explorer uses the path specified in the codebase attribute to automatically download and install it.

The codebase attribute must be set to http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab". This location will always contain the latest version of the QuickTime Player.

The object element width and height attributes should match the dimensions of the movie in pixels.

The object element may have several parameter (param) elements specified. The src parameter must be set to the path of the movie file. In this case "chicken.mov", a short video clip from a public domain movie.

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