Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Adding applets with object

You can add a simple, self-contained applet to an HTML document using the object element like this:

<object classid="applet.class" codebase="http://somedomain.com/classes/">
An applet with some useful function should display in this space.
</object>

The classid attribute points to the applet itself (its implementation). It has the same function as the code attribute in the applet element when used for Java applets. classid may not contain any pathname information, so the location of the class file is provided by the codebase attribute.

When using object for Java applets, the object element may contain a number of parameter (param) elements, as with the applet element. (Note that Netscape 4.0 does not support param elements within object, so it may not play applets correctly if placed this way.)