Embedding the Player Control in a Web Page Displayed by Firefox (Windows)

Embedding the Player Control in a W...

Embedding the Player Control in a Web Page Displayed by Firefox

To embed the Windows Media Player control in a Web page that can be displayed by a Firefox browser, create an OBJECT element or an EMBED element that has one of the following mime types as its type attribute:

application/x-ms-wmp
application/asx
video/x-ms-asf-plugin
application/x-mplayer2
video/x-ms-asf
video/x-ms-wm
audio/x-ms-wma
audio/x-ms-wax
video/x-ms-wmv
video/x-ms-wvx

The preferred mime type is application/x-ms-wmp.

The following examples show how to embed the Player control using an OBJECT element or an EMBED element.


<OBJECT id="Player"
  type="application/x-ms-wmp" 
  width="320" height="320">
  <PARAM name="autostart" value="false"/>
</OBJECT>

<EMBED id="Player"
  type="application/x-ms-wmp" 
  width="320" height="320"
  autostart="false"/>

The preceeding examples work in Firefox but not in Internet Explorer. To embed the Player control in a Web page that can be displayed by Internet Explorer, you must create an OBJECT element that has a classid attribute set to the class ID of the Windows Media Player control.

The following example shows how to embed the Windows Media Player control in a Web page that can be displayed correctly by both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Script on the page detects the browser type and generates the appropriate OBJECT tag.


<HTML>
  <BODY>
    <SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
      if(-1 != navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE"))
      {
        document.write('<OBJECT id="Player"');
        document.write(' classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"');
        document.write(' width=300 height=200></OBJECT>');
      }
      else if(-1 != navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox"))
      {
        document.write('<OBJECT id="Player"'); 
        document.write(' type="application/x-ms-wmp"'); 
        document.write(' width=300 height=200></OBJECT>');
      }         
    </SCRIPT>
  </BODY>
</HTML>

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