Information for Windows Media Technologies Web Developers

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December 30, 1998

Web developers create ASF content and need to figure out how best to incorporate it into their HTML pages or applications. Here are quick reference guides to help Windows Media Technologies Web developers.

Linking to content -- Using standard <A HREF> tags to link to content served by Windows Media Technologies.

Embedding the Windows Media Player -- Creating Web pages that can play embedded streaming media files in the Windows Media Player in both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

<OBJECT> tag -- Using the Windows Media Services control to embed content served by Windows Media Technologies into HTML pages.

Codebase -- Using codebase in the Windows Media Player <OBJECT> tag to auto-install the Windows Media Player.

Advanced Scripting for Cross-Browser Functionality -- Using scripting with the Windows Media Player to create rich multimedia Web sites that function properly in both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer.

Linking from Office applications -- How to insert content served by Windows Media Technologies into Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint®.

Calling VBScript -- How to call VBScript® events from the Windows Media stream and interpret them in your HTML pages.