INFO: CODEBASE Attribute Is Not Supported for Downloading Windows Media Player 7 Control. (321684)

SUMMARY

When you embed an ActiveX control in Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can specify the CODEBASE attribute in the OBJECT tag. The CODEBASE attribute contains a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). This URL points to a Web site where the control can be downloaded if the control is not available on a user's system.

By design, you cannot use the CODEBASE attribute with the Microsoft Windows Media Player 7 control.

To download the latest version of the Windows Media Player control, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia

MORE INFORMATION

The Windows Media Player 7 control is much larger than the Windows Media Player 6.4 control. By design, therefore, the CODEBASE attribute is not supported because it would lead to a bad user experience for those users who are on a slow modem connection.

For additional information about how you automatically embed code to detect the version of Windows Media Player that is installed on a client computer, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

279022 Auto Embedding Windows Media Player 7 in Web Page if It Is Installed on the Client

If version 7 is not installed on a client computer, you can download the latest version of Windows Media Player from the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia