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Internet Explorer 3.0 (Speakers on?)
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If you're using Netscape Navigator, you may not see or hear anything here!
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Movies can be embedded in Internet Explorer 3.0 to permit automatic load and play when the page
is opened (without the use of an external viewer), and to be looped indefinitely. You can click on the
image to start and stop it.
Also, you can define a "background sound" that will be played automatically when the page is
opened. This sound has no external player associated with it and can be looped to play indefinitely
or until the user leaves the page or the browser's "Stop" button is clicked.
Embedding Movies
A movie is embedded in a page by using the <IMG> tag along with the <DNYSRC>
parameter. The format of this tag is explained below:
- <IMG DYNSRC="movie.ext" ...parameters... >
- Required IMG tag and DYNSRC parameter giving the location and name of the movie file.
Other parameters include:
- ALIGN=TOP|MIDDLE|BOTTOM|LEFT|RIGHT
- Aligns the movie and specifies how surrounding text will be wrapped around it.
- ALT=text
- Gives the alternate text to display when images are not displayed in the browser.
- BORDER=n
- Specifies whether a border is to appear around the movie.
- CONTROLS
- Determines whether a start/stop controller is to be visible.
- HEIGHT=n
- Sets the height of the movie frame (should be the original height of the movie).
- HSPACE=n
- Gives the amount of horizontal space (in pixels) to surround the movie image.
- LOOP=INDEFINITE|-1|n
- Specifies the number of times the movie is to play. INDEFINITE and -1 play the movie
continuously; n is an integer giving the exact number of replays.
- START=FILEOPEN|MOUSEOVER
- Determines whether the movie will be started when the page is opened (FILEOPEN) or whe
the user moves the mouse over the movie image (MOUSEOVER).
- VSPACE=n
- Gives the amount of vertical space (in pixels) to surround the movie image.
- WIDTH=n
- Sets the width of the movie frame (should be the original width of the movie).
The parameters can be used in various combinations, or not at all, to produce the effect that you
want. For example, the tag used to play the movie at the top of this page is
<IMG DYNSRC="butterfly.avi" BORDER=0 LOOP=INFINITE START=FILEOPEN ALIGN=LEFT
HSPACE=15>
Embedding Sounds
In Internet Explorer 3.0 an embedded sound is a background sound that plays automatically when
the page is opened. The following tag is used:
<BGSOUND SRC="sound.ext" LOOP=INFINITE|-1|n>
where SRC is the name of the sound file and LOOP specifies whether the sound is to be played
continuously (INFINITE or -1) or a certain number of integer times (n). The sound is halted when
the user goes to a different page or if the "Stop" button on the browser is clicked.
This tag is placed at the beginning of the <BODY> section of the HTML file.
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