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Subject: XHTML <object> tag, not <applet> tag
Category: Computers > Internet
Asked by: ouroborosns-ga
List Price: $3.00		 Posted: 10 Jun 2004 13:35 PDT
Expires: 10 Jul 2004 13:35 PDT
Question ID: 359351 
I have been absolutely pulling my hair out trying to get a java applet
to both validate and run under XHTML 1.1. The java applet is a
panorama applet which I can get to work and validate in Mozilla, but
does not work in Internet Explorer. The code I am using (and which I
think is right) is the following:

<object codebase="java" classid="panorama.class" height="196" width="460" >
<param name="panorama"
value="the-image.jpg"
/>
<!--[if !IE]> Mozilla/Netscape and its brethren -->
<object codebase="java" classid="java:panorama.class" height="196" width="460" >
<param name="panorama"
value="the-image.jpg"
/>
</object>
<!-- <![endif]-->
</object>

The question, therefore, is: How can I make that panorama applet work
and have the page still validate as XHTML? (Note: a sneaky workaround is not
what I'm looking for; instead, I am looking for the W3C intended
working method of embedding java applets into a webpage.)
Clarification of Question by ouroborosns-ga on 10 Jun 2004 13:38 PDT 
I forgot to provide the location of the applet:
http://www3.mistral.co.uk/colinp/java11.htm
Request for Question Clarification by palitoy-ga on 11 Jun 2004 05:36 PDT 
Your page has this document type:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

Should it not be something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
Clarification of Question by ouroborosns-ga on 11 Jun 2004 12:21 PDT 
Hello, and thank you for asking. I suppose I wasn't as clear as I could be.

The applet in question is located at
http://www3.mistral.co.uk/colinp/java11.htm (also listed above). That
page does not belong to me, it's only where I found the applet; if a
person is interested in attempting to answer my question, that is
where they'd get the applet to experiment with. At present, I have no
page up with the applet in place (since I have not been able to get it
to both work and validate, and I'm being rather stringent about having
my pages validate XHTML 1.1 Strict).

At its simplest, a the code for such a page (and to the best of my
understanding) would be the following (assuming that the .class files
are located in a sub-directory called "java" which is relative to the
directory within which the page is created):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
 <head>
  <title>Panorama Applet Test Page</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <div id="top">
   <object codebase="java" classid="panorama.class" height="196" width="460" >
    <param name="panorama" value="the-image.jpg" />
    <!--[if !IE]> Mozilla/Netscape and its brethren -->
    <object codebase="java" classid="java:panorama.class" height="196"
width="460" >
     <param name="panorama" value="the-image.jpg" />
    </object>
    <!-- <![endif]-->
   </object>
  </div>
 </body>
</html>

That code will validate, but it will not run. Why not?
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