Since the Embed tag is the private property of Netscape, it has not been recognized by W3C. The use of Embed tags for various media files is non-standard. How to change it? Elizabeth Castro's Bye Bye Embed article gives good web standards-compliant code for various media players.
Online media playback--Google Video and YouTube<object type=application/x-shockwave-flash
data=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf? »
8755581808731033658
width=400 height=326 id=VideoPlayback>
<param name=movie
value=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf? »
docId=8755581808731033658 />
<param name=allowScriptAcess value=sameDomain />
<param name=quality value=best />
<param name=bgcolor value=#FFFFFF />
<param name=scale value=noScale />
<param name=salign value=TL />
<param name=FlashVars value=playerMode=embedded />
</object>
In fact, it is the call of FLASH file
Windows Media Player files<object type=video/x-ms-wmv
data=http://www.sarahsnotecards.com/catalunyalive/ »
fishstore.wmv
width=320 height=260>
<param name=src
value=http://www.sarahsnotecards.com/catalunyalive/ »
fishstore.wmv />
<param name=autostart value=true />
<param name=controller value=true />
</object>
The above code does not have a classid unique to Windows Media Player. The author has tested it under IE5.5, IE6, IE7, Opera Win/Mac, Firefox Win/Mac, and Safari.
QuickTime movies have no embed tag<object classid=clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-»
D3488ABDDC6B
codebase=http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab
width=320 height=260>
<param name=src
value=http://www.sarahsnotecards.com/catalunyalive/ »
diables.mov />
<param name=controller value=true />
<param name=autoplay value=false />
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<object type=video/quicktime
data=http://www.sarahsnotecards.com/catalunyalive/ »
diables.mov
width=320 height=260>
<param name=autoplay value=false />
<param name=controller value=true />
</object>
<!--<![endif]-->
</object>