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Advanced Javascript, 3rd Edition
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Advanced Javascript, 3rd Edition

by Chuck Easttom
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
591 pages
14h 16m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Chapter 25Plug-ins

Plug-ins are very common parts of web pages. For example, you have probably seen Flash animations inserted into HTML pages. There are a variety of things that can be plugged into HTML. In this chapter we will discuss some of the more common plug-ins and methods of incorporating plug-in objects.

Embedding a Plug-in Object in HTML

A plug-in is a piece of software that the browser calls to process data referenced in an HTML document. In order to reference such data in an HTML tag, you must use the <EMBED> tag. This tag’s general syntax is as follows:

<EMBED   SRC=source   NAME=appletName   HEIGHT=height   WIDTH=width>   [<PARAM NAME=parameterName VALUE=parameterValue>]   [...</PARAM>]</EMBED>

SRC=source specifies the URL containing the source ...

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