I used the "<applet>" tag of HTML long time ago. But after my long gap with HTML, while I am trying with this tag, it does not seem to be working. Does anyone know what is the alternative of "<applet>" tag at HTML5? and which browsers support it?
Applet is no longer supported at HTML5. Just to remind you of applet, I have included one applet example here:
<applet code="Bubbles.class" width="350" height="350">
Java applet that draws animated bubbles.
</applet>
Learn more about applet here: [http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_applet.asp][1]
The alternative of applet at HTML5 is <object> .
The <object> tag defines an embedded object within an HTML document. Use this element to embed multimedia (like audio, video, Java applets, ActiveX, PDF, and Flash) in your web pages.
You can also use the <object> tag to embed another webpage into your HTML document.
You can use the <param> tag to pass parameters to plugins that have been embedded with the <object> tag.
***quoted from w3schools.com.
Example of :
<object width="400" height="400" data="helloworld.swf"></object>
Learn more about object here [http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_object.asp][2]
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I want to know what's embed tag is used for?
from W3SCHOOL :
The tag defines a container for an external resource, such as a web page, a picture, a media player, or a plug-in application
I'm confused about external resource
I mean what is external resource?
The external resource is an address that you receive your media. e.g src of an image, a text HTML, a video, etc. But as said in : https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_embed.asp
Suggestion
To display a picture, it is better to use the <img> tag.
To display HTML, it is better to use the <iframe> tag.
To display video or audio, it is better to use the <video> and <audio> tags.
<object data="test.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="300" height="200">
alt : test.pdf
</object>
The above code displays the PDF content in html. Whether <object> tag requires any plugin(adobe or any other third party) to display pdf file or it is HTML capabilities.
Please clarify the same?
It depends on the browser. Some have native support for the PDF file format, others do not.
Tag <object> requires plugins.
This tag only provides the browser with the information which browser need to know to display the content of the tag, because initially the browser don't know how to display it to the user.
Also, the text between the <object> and </object> is an alternate text, for browsers that do not support this tag.
Moreover, notice that a lot of attributes of this tag isn't supported by HTML5. More details here.
I want to display pdf file view in a division on a webpage for reading. I was using iframe for that. But as i searched about it. iframe is deprecated in html5.
Any other compatible(non flash and if possible not html5) way to show pdf content on webpage just like a pdf displayed with an iframe?
The <iframe> is not deprecated at all. At least, the current HTML5 spec draft on <iframe> doesn't say anything about deprecation. In the future please read the specification itself before making ungrounded assumptions.
There's however an alternative to the <iframe> which allows graceful degradation: the <object> tag which in the below example gracefully degrades to a link when the specified content type is not supported by the browser nor any of its plugins (you know, displaying a PDF file inline requires the Acrobat Reader plugin).
<object data="/url/to/file.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="500" height="300">
Download file.pdf
</object>
This is a perfectly acceptable use of an iframe. It has not been deprecated in HTML5, it even has three new tags (sandbox, seamless, and srcdoc). Or you can use <object> as the other answer suggests.
In an <object> tag, you can put alternate content, like this:
<object data="image.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
<img alt="Image" src="image.png"/>
</object>
Is there a way to do the same (or something similar) with <embed> tag?
I suppose Javascript could be a solution, but I'm looking for something with only HTML.
I'm sorry to say that embedding arbitrary data types is not yet possible. When loaded by a browser most unrecognized mime types get interpreted as plain HTML.
It's pretty hard to get even basic media types to embed -- see audio and video, which are just starting to gain popular acceptance with HTML5. Most object tags you see are likely restricted to media types that are possible to load via proprietary desktop/browser extensions.
The age old question. <object> vs <embed>. From what I gather, <object> is the XHTML-compliant way of doing things, while <embed> is for legacy support. I'm currently building a Flash application that will contain a pre-made embedding code for users to copy and paste, and I'm wondering if it's feasible to simply dump the <embed> tag altogether.
Which browsers would be unable to load my application if I gave my users an <object>-only embed code?
Thanks :)
HTML4/XHTML1 only knows <object> and <applet> for the embedding of multimedia content, though the <embed> tag like the <object> is supported by all common browsers AFAIK.
With HTML5 <embed> will be included in the specification (in addition to the <object> tag), whereas the <applet> is going to be removed. In addition, there will be new tags like <audio>, <canvas>, <svg> and <video>.
As far as I understand the HTML5 specs, flash contents can be included with both - <embed> and <object>.