Technical: QuickTime
Advanced Search
Apple Developer Connection
Member Login Log In | Not a Member? Contact ADC

Embedding QuickTime for Web Delivery

<EMBED>

The EMBED tag allows media file types other than those supported by the browser natively, to be handled with an external application or plugin. In this case, the external application will be QuickTime Player and the plugin will be the QuickTime Plugin. The EMBED tag has been supported in Netscape's Navigator since version 2.0 and in Internet Explorer since version 3.0. The EMBED tag itself has yet to be specified as an HTML standard. Therefore, browsers support various attibutes in various versions. The list of EMBED Attributes is long and twisted; here we will document the EMBED Attributes QuickTime supports.

QuickTime Embed Tag Attributes:

Embed Tag Attributes:

Note: This list of QuickTime Embed Tag Attributes is for resource purposes only. Familiarity with QuickTime and HTML is implied. Here is a list of HTML resources: