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We can create a media player which work well both in IE and netsacpe. It requires a windows media player plugin for firefox. You can install the plugin from Windows Media Plugin for Firefox.

This player can be used for playing audio and / or video.

For IE the object is

<object id=”contentPlayer” classid=”CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6″ width=”320″

height=”240″>
<param name=”URL” value=”‘+url+’” />
<param name=”uiMode” value=”none”>

Note: IE required the object ID. And url is a javascript variable for the location of the video /

audio file

And for Netscape the object is

<object id=”contentPlayer” type=”application/x-ms-wmp” data=”‘+url+’” width=”320″ height=”240″>
<param name=”URL” value=”‘+url+’” />
<param name=”uiMode” value=”none”>

Note: Netscape requires object type as application/x-ms-wmp this will be available from the

plugin mentioned earlier.

We can use additional parameter like
<param name=”autostart” value=”false”> to control the automatic playing of the audio/video.

Control can be create for various player events like play, pause, stop etc as follows

var wmp = document.getElementById(’contentPlayer’);

wmp.controls.play();
wmp.controls.pause();
wmp.controls.stop();
wmp.controls.fastForward();
wmp.controls.fastReverse();
wmp.settings.mute = true;
wmp.settings.volume = 50;
wmp.fullScreen = true;
wmp.URL = ‘./videos/my_video.wmv’;

We can create a mouseover text description, similar to an image alt tag, that will be viewed when mouse is placed over the text link. It will provide visitors regarding the information about the link.

We can place “TITLE=”text description”" within HTML link code.

<A href=”http://www.domainname.com/myaccount.php” mce_href=”http://www.domainname.com/myaccount.php” TITLE=”Click here to update your account”>User name</A>

In addition, we can display description text as a list by adding the characters following each text line.

<A href=”http://www.domainname.com/categories.php” mce_href=”http://www.domainname.com/categories.php” TITLE=”Various Categories:
Ringtones
Wallpapers
Video clips
and more… “>Categories</A>

We can view the above description list on mouse over.