<embed> tag not working properly on linux

[Annu]

Hi
I need help on <enbed> tag.
Following code(No 1) is working properly on windows but on linux code
no.2 is not working
Code No 1:
<EMBED type='application/x-mplayer2'

pluginspage='http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/'
id='mediaPlayer' name='mediaPlayer' displaysize='4'
autosize='-1'
bgcolor='darkblue' showcontrols="true" showtracker='-1'
showdisplay='0' showstatusbar='-1' videoborder3d='-1'
width="320" height="285"
src="C:\music\pop\artist\song.mp3" autostart="true"
designtimesp='5311' loop="true">
</EMBED>

Code No 2:
<EMBED type='application/x-mplayer2'

pluginspage='http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/'
id='mediaPlayer' name='mediaPlayer' displaysize='4'
autosize='-1'
bgcolor='darkblue' showcontrols="true" showtracker='-1'
showdisplay='0' showstatusbar='-1' videoborder3d='-1'
width="320" height="285"
src="/var/www/html/song.mp3" autostart="true"
designtimesp='5311' loop="true">
</EMBED>

Please tell me the reason and correction.
Thank You.

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Annu wrote:

I need help on <enbed> tag.
Drop it.
Following code(No 1) is working properly on windows

It only works on browsers supporting the proprietary <embed> tag. The
tag itself is not always a bad idea, though. Using it to include sound
on a web page is bad, in HTML authoring for the WWW at least (which we
are discussing here). Any decent book or tutorial on WWW authoring will
tell you that.

If you have some interesting music, and if you _know_ that you have all
the rights (obtained from the authors and artists etc.) to use it on the
WWW, you may upload it and include a _link_ to it on your page. Make
sure the link text and context make it clear that you are linking to
some music, and which music it is.

[Andy Dingley]

On 10 Jan 2006 00:48:30 -0800, "Annu" <an***************@gmail.com>
wrote:

<EMBED type='application/x-mplayer2'

As a general principle, would it always be a bad idea to include a type
attribute on <embed> that has any value of "x-*" ?

<embed> has its uses. It is a data-oriented way to link content to the
user's desktop environment, allowing that desktop to try and find a
best-match for rendering that content (in this case their favoured MP3
player). <embed> can do this in a way for which <object> has no direct
equivalent (posts passim re. .mov files).

This can be done through either the src URL and its "file extension" or
through a type attribute. But if type is used, surely an "obscure" type
(and x-* should always be obscure) is contrary to the notion of
"distributing widely-known media in th eknowledge that most desktops
will recognise them and have their own choices for dealing with them".

If you really _have_ to use application/x-foobar, then isn't <object> a
better idea? (and accepting that you've limited the audience to foobar
users).