[documentation] How to get more people involved with documentation

Steven Wittens steven at acko.net
Sun Jun 18 18:30:09 UTC 2006


>
> <embed> <object> <param>
>
> ...for embedding Quicktime and Flash movies. I know this creates  
> issues as the updated IE cannot see QT without a Javascript helper  
> (see http://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedprep.html) but it  
> sure would be nice to be able to visually enrich the handbooks with  
> images and video.

Err, do we really need this?

Properly embedding QT/Flash for all browsers is tricky and takes a  
lot of ugly HTML. Embedding also means that you need to go dig into  
the source to save the file locally. Finally, it means we force  
everyone who views the page to download all embedded videos, which  
may not be desirable.

Linking to the file in question, perhaps with an image as the link,  
is preferable IMO.

-1.

Steven Wittens



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