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Contains arbitrary objects

Element introduced by Netscape to help hide some things from the browser. It can actually be used to start up sound files as in the following example:

   <html>
        <head>
        <title>Embedding sound file</title>
        </head>
        <body>
           .
           .
==>>      <embed src="theme-sh.wav" autostart="true" volume="100" width="0" height="0">
          .
           .
        </body>
        </html>

This example downloads a sound file from the web-page server, starts it as soon as it's finished loading and plays it at the loudest volume. The height and width are set to 0 pixels so it doesn't take up any physical space on the display.

HTML 3.2 Final

Not mentioned.

Netscape

Introduced as an extension some time ago, but I can't find any Netscape documentation on it. I would think this has been replaced by the applet element. But just in case you run across it in your travels here are the pieces I know:

src: Works like the src attribute in the <img> element. Specify the URL of some file that is the object of the statement.
width height: Again, these work like the attributes in the <img> element. You specify the values as pixels.

Any other attributes would be peculiar to the program that is going to deal with the file you have referenced in the src attribute.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Not supported.

Internationalization

Not supported.

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Michael T. Rusk
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